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"A creepy and suspenseful read." Lucy O'Connor, Waterstones "...the most complex, incredible, yet realistic Gordian knot I've read of in a very long time - if ever." Mallory Forbes, Mallory Heart Reviews When Jason Robbins arrives at the eerie Heron House in deepest Carmarthenshire for a writing course, he soon meets its two weird servants who seem to exercise a sinister power over their scheming employer, Monty Flynn. Another newcomer is Helen Jenkins, a cook, to whom Jason is instantly attracted. Together they discover what dangers really lurk behind those ivy-clad walls. How the terrible post-war past bleeds into the present when the tormented soul of the young woman haunting them will stop at nothing to have her story told. But is her version of events to be trusted? And at what cost to Jason and Helen when they attempt to find out the truth?… (mehr)
This review may change as I think more about what I have just read. This book was pretty amazing and different to anything I've read.
This book has a fantastic, well paced beginning. It's a slow to start but not a bad slow. A good slow which builds pace and lets the plot unravel wonderfully. I like the idea of an aspiring writer being the main protagonist too, and I'm not sure why.
Set in the dramatic Welsh mountains, this mystery/thriller/horror/crime novel is every bit as dark and brooding (and mysterious) as the cover implies. And then some. OK, so I cannot pronounce most of the Welsh but hey-ho, I'm not Welsh. It didn't really matter really. I spent a lot of time placing myself there, in the remote mountains, surrounded by evergreen plantation forests and rusting equipment, swirling mist and soaking rain. I could smell the cloying scent of roses, hear the rooks calling.
As the story goes on it gets creepier and creepier. I found myself reading faster and faster, eager to know what malevolent turn this book would take next. It is deliciously dark and twisted and atmospheric. and just when you think you have everything worked out BAM! Oh no you don't. Because there is another unexpected sinister twist.
This book is as haunting as the plot and the characters, and will probably stay with me for a long time.
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Prologue: Tuesday 24th December 1946 - 6.45 p.m.
Christmas Eve in Nantybai, Carmenthenshire, where the small knot of villagers who'd gathered to chat outside St. Barnabas' Church doors, hurry in to escape the fresh snowfall blowing westward from the Cambrian hills.
Chapter I: Tuesday 31st March 2009 - 3.30 p.m.
Jacob Robbins paused outside the doctor's surgery in Hounslow's Pinetree Road just long enough for a passing bus to spray his clean clothes with oily filth from the gutter.
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He gripped the inner windowsill, holding his breath, repulsed yet hypnotised at that malevolence, with an even more steely expression in its eyes, began to tap her baby bone against the glass.
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"A creepy and suspenseful read." Lucy O'Connor, Waterstones "...the most complex, incredible, yet realistic Gordian knot I've read of in a very long time - if ever." Mallory Forbes, Mallory Heart Reviews When Jason Robbins arrives at the eerie Heron House in deepest Carmarthenshire for a writing course, he soon meets its two weird servants who seem to exercise a sinister power over their scheming employer, Monty Flynn. Another newcomer is Helen Jenkins, a cook, to whom Jason is instantly attracted. Together they discover what dangers really lurk behind those ivy-clad walls. How the terrible post-war past bleeds into the present when the tormented soul of the young woman haunting them will stop at nothing to have her story told. But is her version of events to be trusted? And at what cost to Jason and Helen when they attempt to find out the truth?
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This book has a fantastic, well paced beginning. It's a slow to start but not a bad slow. A good slow which builds pace and lets the plot unravel wonderfully. I like the idea of an aspiring writer being the main protagonist too, and I'm not sure why.
Set in the dramatic Welsh mountains, this mystery/thriller/horror/crime novel is every bit as dark and brooding (and mysterious) as the cover implies. And then some. OK, so I cannot pronounce most of the Welsh but hey-ho, I'm not Welsh. It didn't really matter really. I spent a lot of time placing myself there, in the remote mountains, surrounded by evergreen plantation forests and rusting equipment, swirling mist and soaking rain. I could smell the cloying scent of roses, hear the rooks calling.
As the story goes on it gets creepier and creepier. I found myself reading faster and faster, eager to know what malevolent turn this book would take next. It is deliciously dark and twisted and atmospheric. and just when you think you have everything worked out BAM! Oh no you don't. Because there is another unexpected sinister twist.
This book is as haunting as the plot and the characters, and will probably stay with me for a long time.
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