This book I picked up a long with another of Kate's book's the forgotten garden, being a thick book I thought it was ideal for reading while waiting to go in for endless hospital appointments, most of these take at least 60 minutes of waiting.
However this looked like a book that would swallow many trips to the surgery and eat away at the bordom perhaps reading the reviews it might verge on being a bit of a long and laborious haul, just like my hospital trips however very quickly I was hooked and I didn't want it to end. I lost myself completely in it while reading, In fact I got rather cross when my name was called to go in!
The story of the three Blythe sisters, Percy, Saffy & Juniper & Meredith, their war-time evacuee Meredith, Edie her daughter held my attention thoroughly throughout the novel. There were several twists to the tale, some I had guessed, others were a suprise. I know some people found the end unsatisfactory but for me it was the only possible ending.
Sometimes stories that jump backwards and forwards in time can feel a little disconnected but I felt the story flowed very well.
I was hoping for a bit of a ghostie lagacy with it being based in a castle and having "talking walls" & "caretakers", it had the promise of being darker, more eery but that side didn't get explored, shame.. I am now looking forward to reading 'The Forgotten Garden'
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