More Than You Know
by:
Beth Gutcheon (author)
In a small town called Dundee on the coast of Maine, an old woman named Hannah Gray begins her story: "Somebody said 'true love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.' I've seen both and I don't know how to tell you which is worse." Hannah has decided, finally, to leave a...
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In a small town called Dundee on the coast of Maine, an old woman named Hannah Gray begins her story: "Somebody said 'true love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.' I've seen both and I don't know how to tell you which is worse." Hannah has decided, finally, to leave a record of the passionate and anguished long-ago summer in Dundee when she met Conary Crocker, the town bad boy and love of her life. This spare, piercing, and unforgettable novel bridges two centuries and two intense love stories as Hannah and Conary's fate is interwoven with the tale of a marriage that took place in Dundee a hundred years earlier.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780060959357 (0060959355)
ASIN: B000BLNPIW
Publish date: May 3rd 2005
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages no: 269
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Paranormal,
Novels,
Literature,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Adult,
Mystery,
Supernatural,
Ghosts
I wasn't impressed. I felt that Gutcheon underwhelming researched the time periods for the novel. For the subjects she obviously loved and knew about, such as sailing and boating, the description was rich, and drew me in. However, I had a hard time imagining the setting around both of the perspectiv...
This was not at all what I expected but very good; it made it to my 5 star list!
Again, a story of ghosts and their interaction with the living in a small New England town. The present and the past wrap into a story of parallel lives as the reader discovers the family tree of the characters and why the haunting takes place. It is interwoven with a story of young love, an unsolve...
Reading a ghost story is my favourite way to get scared. Reading a literary ghost story is the best: because the characters are emotionally complex, the prose is smooth, the plot is well-timed, and the themes are multi-faceted (and go beyond "Be scared!"). The scary scenes in this book freaked me ou...