I really enjoyed this book, it was a comfortable easy going read that had a steady pace, a nice story with interesting characters. My only annoyance was with how timid and weak she seemed around Bruno, I found the shaman theory of 'suggestion' quite interesting, it put a new spin on the situation...
“After so devastating a disappointment it would make sense to turn to a Neil”I read one of Vickers’ previous novels in my pre-blogging days, Miss Garnet’s Angel, and remember that it was mostly about a painting of Tobit or Tobias or Toblerone or some such personage. I did remember enjoying it tho...
The highly acclaimed author of ‘Miss Garnet’s angel’ has written another astounding novel to add to an already prized collection, which is both stylish and compelling. If the eye-catching, striking front cover doesn’t capture your imagination then the storyline certainly will, that shows the thre...
Originally published on my blog here in November 2004.There have been many novels written about the way in which the settled life of a British village can be transformed by the introduction of new ideas by cosmopolitan visitors. It might be thought that the advent of modern communications and med...
Julia Garnet is sixty years old, emotionally repressed, sexually inexperienced and has spent her life in almost sacrificial frugality. She is also the amazed heir to her former - even more frugal - housemate's legacy. Harriet seems to have had a secret: a genius for investment! Who knew? Certain...
His contact with Agnès had not ceased; but over the two years of her stay at the farm it had diminished. She was so at home, so patently happy there, that by and by her former doctor ceased to trouble about her. They had both survived his panicky error and the outcome had maybe been more favourab...
Not that Harriet was essentially an angry person. She was, she liked to think, mostly easygoing. But, as everyone does, she had her moments. And these ‘moments’ tended to arise where her father was concerned. Harriet’s mother had departed life when her only child was sixteen. She had died under a...