Observatory MansionsBy: Edward Carey I consider [Observatory Mansions] the best fiction yet published in the 21st Century' Jeff Vandermeer 'All of Edward Carey's work is profound and delightful Max Porter [Edward Carey, with Observatory Mansions] proves the potential brilliance of the novel form John Fowles Observatory Mansions was once the Orme family's ancestral home. Now it is a crumbing apartment block, stranded on a traffic island and peopled with eccentrics. Alice