I didn't know what I was getting into when I started this book. The synopsis honestly didn't give me any clear insight at the point of the book. I knew that it involved a painter, and that the story involved a mystery.Well, of course, the story is so much more than that. After the death of her aunt,...
Three things: one, Jane Harris, where have you been all my life?; two, imagine Shirley Jackson meets A.S. Byatt, with a little Sarah Waters and Zoe Heller thrown in, all set in Scotland, and you've got the feel of the story; and three, I loved this book.I'm sort of just going to flail and squee, and...
Caveat Lector! I am including significant spoiler material in here. You hae been warned.When I began reading Gillespie and I, it was a bit of a compulsion. Usually I have two books open at a time, one that I tote about with me and another that I dip into just before bedtime. While reading Gillespie ...
An extraordinary book. I found it really hard going to start with mainly because I found the narrator so unsympathetic, however, I am so pleased I persevered as the extraordinary and clever shift in the middle of the book, made everything come together. It was only then that I realised what an unrel...
I think I will try theThe Observations, also by this author, first. What I noted in comparing the two samples was that they were VERY similar. Perhaps too similar to want to read two books by the same author. The sample for this book pulled me in less than that for "The Observations". I am more hes...
Set In Glasgow at the end of the nineteenth century, Gillespie And I is the account of a friendship between the narrator, now an elderly spinster living in Bloomsbury but at that time a young woman of independent means, and an artist, Ned Gillespie. It focuses, in particular, on a dreadful tragedy w...
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