Kirkus Reviews – Editorial review
This shocker will linger in memory like the echo of a scream. Bridget Chauncey unexpectedly inherits a small castle (actually it’s a ""biggish house"") on the bog of Killabeg in Ireland. Over the protests of her fiance Daniel, she decides to turn it into a summer tourist hotel. In the meantime she discovers that her mysterious relative had an unusual hobby–he kept a village of complete dolls’ houses in a locked tower. Later she and the guests–a masochistic American couple and their strange daughter, a self-effacing German and his Jewish wife, a drunken young Irishman and Daniel, discover the reason. And they enter into a contemporary Gothic nightmare, a hangover from WWII when an experiment in cytogenesis has produced perversion, terror and a strange power. Ultimately they are faced with the kind of self-knowledge that can lead to madness. It’s Christopher at his best. References : http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&source=hp&q=the+little+people+by+john+christopher&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=2371109006088874044&ei=zgYXS6C4EJW_lAf4keWRDw&sa=X&oi=product_catalog_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CBIQ8wIwAw#ps-sellers
December 11th, 2009 | 
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That sounds like DarbyO Gill and The Little People.
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The Little People by John Chistopher
Kirkus Reviews – Editorial review
This shocker will linger in memory like the echo of a scream. Bridget Chauncey unexpectedly inherits a small castle (actually it’s a ""biggish house"") on the bog of Killabeg in Ireland. Over the protests of her fiance Daniel, she decides to turn it into a summer tourist hotel. In the meantime she discovers that her mysterious relative had an unusual hobby–he kept a village of complete dolls’ houses in a locked tower. Later she and the guests–a masochistic American couple and their strange daughter, a self-effacing German and his Jewish wife, a drunken young Irishman and Daniel, discover the reason. And they enter into a contemporary Gothic nightmare, a hangover from WWII when an experiment in cytogenesis has produced perversion, terror and a strange power. Ultimately they are faced with the kind of self-knowledge that can lead to madness. It’s Christopher at his best.
References :
http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&source=hp&q=the+little+people+by+john+christopher&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=2371109006088874044&ei=zgYXS6C4EJW_lAf4keWRDw&sa=X&oi=product_catalog_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CBIQ8wIwAw#ps-sellers