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It's a darkly gothic historical tale rich in its imagery and the creepy atmosphere Paver creates in the setting of a haunted manor house is deliciously oppressive. The life of Alice Pyett, a woman who claimed God spoke through her centuries ago, has absorbed him as the focus of his work, but now her diary entries, which Edmund is translating and which readers are able to read, fuel his own paranoia. I haven't read too many such mysteries to be able to judge this in comparison so maybe my buddy-reader is right in saying that it ticks off all the boxes but brings nothing new.

Michelle Paver – Creator of Legends

Starting with her 2010 novel, Dark Matter, and continuing with 2016’s Thin Air, Paver has been writing ghost stories distinguished by their vividly evoked settings and the struggles of their protago­nists. Utterly alone, she has no confidante, no support and when she turns to the stalwarts in her society for help, she is dismissed and threatened. In Thin Air, the main character was racist and arrogant, and despite it fitting for the time, it was a little off-putting.Maud is isolated in more than just location; as the oldest of her much younger siblings, she is alone in her daily life, alone in grieving her mother, alone in her understanding of life at Wake’s End and the desire to be out from under her father’s rule. Eigentlich hat dieses Buch alles, was ich mag, und doch hat es mich nicht gänzlich überzeugen können.

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The reader will find page after page (or minute upon minute) of Edmund Stearn writing about himself in his journal. The two earlier books were tight and ambiguous, and because we only saw the story through one set of eyes we were left hovering deliciously on that edge between haunting or a form of madness. La palude, classico luogo della tradizione weird britannica, per la protagonista non è un territorio di minaccia, ma di liberazione. It is the home of Edmund Stearn and his family – a historian, scholar and land-owner, he's an upstanding member of the local community. It is never revealed what his mental problem was, I don't think they had a diagnosis for it in 1914, but it is obvious he's completely narcissistic, maybe schizophrenic, but best guess neurosyphilis.If he’d ever given her a choice in anything, he’d been the one who decided what she could choose from. With fully realised characters and motivations, she draws you deeper and deeper into the story, even as the sense of dread grows stronger with every turn of the page. When he is not writing about his great and wonderful self, at one point believing he is one of God's chosen few, he is thinking about himself. Her forward thinking and feminist ideologies, her stubborn nature, and her ardent longing for the natural world all spoke to my heart and I was to unable to do anything but align with her cause. Both were about far more than nature's undisturbed beauty but that is what spoke so clearly to me, through the intricacies of the plot, and ensured both as eternally unforgettable reads.

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Michelle Paver is best known for her prehistoric fantasy series for children, Chronicles of Ancient Darkness. The opening chapter of this novel really does draw the reader in, I enjoyed the atmosphere and descriptions of the the Manor House and fens. Maud highlights the hypocrisy of the ‘rules’ each side enforces: “What made these two sets of rules so dangerous was that you got punished if you mixed them up, but you couldn’t always tell what kind of rule it was.Lo and behold, when I read the authors notes I learned that the character of Alice Pyett was largely based on Kempe’s experiences. No profits are made from this blog and should any sponsored content be featured in future, it will be clearly marked as such. I liked the authors note at the end of the book that explains where she got her ideas from – which bits of the story came from history and which bits came from her life or were inspired from somewhere that she had visited. The magpie on the cover sealed the deal, because I adore the birds for their chatter and cheekiness.

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As her father’s only daughter, she is also isolated as the only female member of her family left—unimportant, incapable, and harmless as any other woman in her father’s eyes. A large manor house, Wake's End, sits on the edge of a bleak Fen, just outside the town of Wakenhyrst.I had never heard of a ‘Doom’ and on googling the Wenhaston Doom that Paver used as inspiration for the Wakenhyrst Doom, I found that the images were fantastic! As in Dark Matter, Paver manages the balance between outright supernaturalism and the suggestion that the horrors are psychological in origin with great skill. Il fatto che sia una figura femminile è particolarmente rilevante, perché il trattamento ricevuto da questa categoria nell’epoca descritta costituisce una grossa parte degli elementi horror del romanzo – a cominciare dai vasi pieni di sangue che escono dalla camera della madre condannata dal marito cattivissimo a restare continuamente incinta. The Suffolk Manor and surrounding Fen really adds to tension building atmosphere creates an impending doom that awaits Maud's father.

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