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A hugely engrossing read from a master storyteller.
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On assignment in Vienna, photographer Ian Jarrett falls desperately in love with a woman he meets by chance, Marian Esguard. Back in England, he breaks up with his wife and goes to meet Marian at an agreed rendezvous. Marian fails to show.
Searching desperately for her, he stumbles on a Dorset churchyard full of the gravestones of dead Esguards. He also meets a psychotherapist, Daphne Sanger. She too is looking for someone: a former patient who has come to believe she is the reincarnation of Marion Esguard, who lived in Regency times and, it emerges, may have invented photography ten years before Fox Talbot. But if so, why is she unknown to history? And where is the woman he met in Vienna?
Ian sets out to solve a mystery that may be 170 years old. At the end of his search a trap awaits him. There is a twist at the end of Caught in the Light that is Robert Goddard's most cunning to date.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
So hard to believe that it leaves the reader dissatisfied,
By A Customer
This review is from: Caught In The Light (Paperback)
Robert Goddard has been recommended to me by several readers. Caught in the Light is the first one of his I have tried. I thought it wasn't bad, but it also wasn't good by a long way. Goddard seemed to be trying to run with two plots at once and they just don't gel. The extraordinary behaviour of the characters out for revenge is just so over the top as to be totally unbelievable - distinct shades of paranoid conspiracy theory brought to life! Some of his characterisation is very superficial and unbelievable, the characters being distorted to suit the plot, which is never a good way to develop a credible story. The ending goes on forever as if Goddard isn't sure where to stop. I shall try another of his novels just in case this one was a bummer, but currently I am not impressed.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not up to his best,
By A Customer
This review is from: Caught In The Light (Paperback)
This really frustrated me, I love Goddard when he's good he writes the most satisfying thrillers with a link to a past which is not all it seems. Well, the best bits about this were the parts about the unkown photographic pioneer. I kept thinking wow, if only this had happened - then I felt really let down because the book was not actually about that at all, but a petty act of revenge. Please, Robert go back to the big canvases of Painting the Darkness.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A GOOD READ,
By Cuffleyburgers (Italy) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Caught In The Light (Paperback)
This is a typical Goddard.
Very easy to read, hard to put down, but as usual leaves you vaguely unsatisfied. I have had this feeling with all of his books I have read (must be at least six or eight). They are beautifully researched, skillfully written and the plotting is obviously something Goddard prides himself on (perhaps too much so), the atmosphere is always well rendered and you read and you read and you don't sleep and you are late to work and spend hours on the loo, and you get to the end usually in about 36 hours, and think hmm well, ok I would always recommend Goddard to non-Goddarders, as well worth reading but I wouldn't wax quite as lyrical as some of your other reviewers.
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