Our heroine, Margaret Lea, deeply loves books, and she lists among her favorite books several of our favorites, including Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and The Woman in White. They both use barbed words as defensive shields and weapons their verbal sparring is a dark treat. The tale unfolds from there with plenty of surprises and an emotional wallop.īoth women have suffered devastating losses that they’ve been carrying for so long, they’ve forgotten just how heavy those burdens can be. Sensing that death is closer than it’s ever been, she invites another writer (with secrets of her own) to document Vida’s life story at her isolated Yorkshire estate. It starts with a reticent old crone - a reclusive mystery author named Vida Winter. The atmosphere curls around like a damp fog, and when the truth of a decades-old mystery is revealed, it is very satisfying and sad, as all good ghost stories should be. In this exquisitely spine-tingling ghost story, terribly broken people are haunted by their memories.
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