I ❤️ loved this book because...
I think my love for this book boils down to Dianne Setterfield’s extraordinary story-telling ability, her choice of language, the wonderful setting, and her interesting characters.
This is a gothic tale, and I love the atmosphere she evokes. Often, I found myself reading the same passages over and over because it conjured up such perfect emotions. Her writing is very rhythmical, her characters hiding behind what they don’t say. Diane Setterfield reveals their backstories with pinpoint timing, the atmosphere building, and the twists catching you off guard.
It’s a brilliant book — an old-fashioned yarn sort of a book, Gothic, intense, and unputdownable.
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'Simply brilliant' Kate Mosse, international bestselling author of Labyrinth
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Everybody has a story...
Angelfield House stands abandoned and forgotten.
It was once home to the March family: fascinating, manipulative Isabelle; brutal, dangerous Charlie; and the wild, untamed twins, Emmeline and Adeline. But the house hides a chilling secret which strikes at the very heart of each of them, tearing their lives apart...
Now Margaret Lea is investigating Angelfield's past, and its mysterious connection to the enigmatic writer Vida Winter. Vida's history is mesmering - a tale of ghosts, governesses, and gothic strangeness. But as Margaret succumbs to the power…