Gretel and the Dark: A Novel
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781594632556 (1594632553)
ASIN: 1594632553
Publish date: October 16th 2014
Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
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GRETEL AND THE DARK is a stand-alone novel by Eliza Granville. It tells the stories of two different girls, in two different counties, in two different times. Their stories unfold in interchanging chapters. I’m in the odd position of not knowing quite how to start this review. Usually, when I star...
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Josef Breuer - celebrated psychoanalyst - is about to encounter his strangest case yet. Found by the lunatic asylum, thin, head shaved, she claims to have no name, no feelings - to be, in fact, not even human. Intrigued, Breuer determines to fathom the roots of her disturbance. Years later, in Ger...
Gretel and the Dark by Eliza Granville is a wonderful atmospheric and haunting novel which is written in two linked narratives. I love this type of story as it is imaginative and edgy and a real page turner.Set in Vienna in 1899 Joseph Breuer is a Pyschoanalyst and has a new case on his hands when ...
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