author: Zoë Somerville
name: F.G.
average rating: 3.96
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rating: 5
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date added: 2022/05/04
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This is a really excellent ghost story/thriller set in 1962, with flashbacks to the period of the 1930s when the BUF were making emphatic strides and Oswald Mosley seemed an increasingly relevant force on the European political stage. The period detail is immaculately done and set largely at a remote spot on the Norfolk Coast, the story is wonderfully atmospheric. You can smell the salt marsh and sea fogs and feel the increasing winter isolation there as the landscape becomes snowbound. The relationship between the mother and young daughter at the centre of the story is teased out with great skill and a strong emotional charge. The author cites a number of inspirations in her closing notes, but the plot struck me as hugely original despite that. 339 pages and I devoured it in a day. Highly recommended.
