Rating: 5/5
Review:
A very good, very dark novel
This is a very good book, I think. It is dark and oppressive, so don't look for
a light beach read here, but it is exceptionally well done and very gripping.
The story is told in two intercut narratives, set in the
same quite isolated, rural cottage in Suffolk. In the present day, a grief-stricken woman
and her husband buy and move into the almost derelict cottage. In earlier times, a mysterious stranger comes
among the farming family who live there, and the two stories develop in parallel. It is a compelling narrative, with both
stories becoming very gripping and with a growing atmosphere of oppression and
menace.
Julie Myerson structures and paces her story very well, she
creates extremely vivid and believable characters and the prose is excellent:
unfussy, readable and each style appropriate to its time. I thought the whole thing was very good and I
can recommend it wholeheartedly – just be prepared for an intensely dark
experience.
(I received a free ARC via Netgalley.)
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