- Unknown Binding: 432 pages
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd (2 Aug 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0743232003
- ISBN-13: 978-0743232005
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 15 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 929,767 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Something strange happened within that family, Harry. People died and people disappeared, and although most of us suspected something odd had occurred, no one ever got at the truth.' At first, journalist Harry Fizglen is sceptical when his editor asks him to investigate the background of Simone Anderson, a new Bloomsbury artist. But once he's met the enigmatic Simone, Harry is intrigued. Just what did happen to Simone's twin sister who disappeared without trace several years before? And what is the Anderson sisters' connection to another set of twin girls, Viola and Sorrel Quinton, born in London on 1st January 1900? All Harry's lines of enquiry seem to lead to the small Shropshire village of Weston Fferna and the imposing ruin of Mortmain House, standing grim and forbidding on the Welsh borders. As Harry delves into the violent and terrible history of Mortmain, in an attempt to uncover what happened to Simone and Sonia, and, one hundred years before them, to Viola and Sorrel Quinton, he finds himself drawn into a number of interlocking mysteries, each one more puzzling - and sinister - than the last.
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Sarah Rayne is the pseudonym of a well-known British author who has written several highly-praised novels. She lives in Staffordshire.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Amazing, can't believe I didn't find this author before!,
By C. Bannister "Book gobbler" (Jersey, CI) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (VINE VOICE) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: A Dark Dividing (Paperback)
I just loved this book. Ordered off amazon after reading the reviews and they were spot on. The story intertwines between present and past, always a winner for me. This is done extremely well as there are a number of characters involved. I don't usually like far fetched stories but there was so much intrigue in this instance I didn't mind.
There are inconsistancies in the use of speech, mobiles, opening bank accounts etc. but with such a rattling good yarn these are soon forgotton. Can't wait to read more Sarah Rayne books.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Amazing, yet again!,
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This review is from: A Dark Dividing (Paperback)
This is the third of Sarah Rayne's books I have read and she never ceases to amaze me with her fantastic plots, and interweaving storylines, always set in different timescales, in this book, around the early 1900's, the 1980's and the present day. It jumps from one period to another flowingly, with a whole host of interesting characters, in particular I loved reading about the villain of the book, a very disturbed and warped person. The author is amazingly clever with her ideas, the bit about the fire and the bodies in it (not giving anything away here) was excellent.
I loved this book and have loved her others, and am looking forward to reading the remaining ones. Highly recommended.
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great book,: pity about some of the details!,
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This review is from: A Dark Dividing
I had not heard of this author and ordered the book from my book club because it was a bargain.A very complex novel, with layer upon layer of lives inter-linked through almost a century. The author keeps the reader guessing about the nature of the connectedness of the characters. Just when you think you have worked out the details, Rayne very subtly changes the whole scenario. Research seems to have been good and most of the historical details, as far as I can see are appropriate to the times. There are a few little niggles for me, though. It is early 1980s when one of the characters sets up in a rented cottage in the Norfolk countryside and she buys the cheapest mobile phone she could find. Where? At that time, "mobile," phones were mostly car phones and very few people used them. Would there have been an adequate network coverage in the Norfolk countryside in the early 1980s? The character also does not want to apply for a credit or debit card. I don't think debit cards were widely available at that time. The last of my, "niggles," is that the character writing her diaries in the early 1900s keeps going in and out of a particular way of speaking. Her language is not consistent. She is a middle-class lady of that time, who sometimes seems to go into later 20th Century speech. Having said all this, and I think the editor should have picked up on the details about mobile phones and debit cards, this is a good read and I have been kept awake by this book, telling myself, just to the end of the chapter, and half an hour later, I am still reading!
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