Could not put this book down. This was a wonderful novel in the gothic tradition. Complete with storied manor that has seen better days, titled family that peaked generations ago and hints of otherworldly activity. Even though everyone emphatically does not believe in ghosts. This was a story to...
RIordan does an excellent job of separating the two voices in her story, something I believe is hard to do. She has a gift with description, and I could visualize the landscapes and surroundings of Gloucestershire easily. The characters were genuine and likable, and she told their story sensitively....
After a brief affair with a married man at her office, twenty-two year old and unmarried Alice finds herself pregnant. Her mother decides to ship Alice off to rural Gloucestershire to have her confinement at Fiercombe Manor where an old friend, Edith Jelphs, works as the housekeeper. With a made u...
3.5 An old manor house, a hidden journal, a summer house with a secret room, a glass house falling apart and a 40 year old mystery. These are the things that Alice finds when she is sent to Fiercombe manor in 1933. Sent by her mother after a one night sexual relationship , leaves her pregnant. Love ...
I requested The Girl in the Photograph from Netgalley and then I found an interesting book called Fiercombe Manor on Edelweiss and requested it. A while later when I had been granted access to them both did I realize that it was the same book. The Girl in the Photograph is the English book and Fierc...
An old adage says that some good things are better left alone – and I've certainly found this to be true here, because although this "Finbar" sequel was devised and edited by Dermot Bolger, who also oversaw the original project, I cared decidedly less for this book than I did for the first "Finbar" ...
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