Take a recipe for disaster... Start with an illicit love affair in 1952, add a painful parting and three deaths in 1953. Leave to settle until 2009. Then add a crumbling mansion (Epton Hall), which harbours a scandalous secret... Gradually combine young librarian Katie Nicholson - an incurable romantic trying to get over a failed love affair. Sprinkle a few daydreams, hundreds of books and stir until well mixed. Carefully blend in a friendly housekeeper, some memorabilia and many books, with Katie's weekend away, new boyfriend and a prophetic dream. Add the secret arrival of sinister nephew Harold Hapsworth-Cole, the only known heir to the estate, and throw in the evidence discovered by Katie in the attic, that another heir exists in Canada. Combine fear, violence, and theft of that evidence with Katie's imprisonment in the attic, Harold's growing mental instability and stir...malevolently. The resultant mixture should be an explosion of love, financial expectations, inheritance, terror, greed and attempted murder. Then... ENJOY. Paper Dreams is an unusual read, which plays with the reader's emotions. It covers family sorrow, obsessions, inheritance, greed, dreams, nightmares, and attempted murder. But above all, it is a story of people's lives, their loves and how they eventually overcome adversity.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Adventure, adversity, thrills - a complete recipe for an excellent read
27 Mar 2012
Format:Kindle Edition
Paper Dreams conjures up many thoughts and ideas. Ms Burton has taken all the ingredients for a super adventure set back in the 50's.
She knows how to set a scene that will easily enthrall the reader and her prose is excellent. I found very few grammar mistakes making this an easy and exceptional read.
The author certainly knows how to hook her reader by playing on their emotions and covers almost everything one would expect to find in a good family drama - romance, greed, murder, obsessive love, to name but a few things.
Bravo! I wait to see what else this fine writer has to offer.
She knows how to set a scene that will easily enthrall the reader and her prose is excellent. I found very few grammar mistakes making this an easy and exceptional read.
The author certainly knows how to hook her reader by playing on their emotions and covers almost everything one would expect to find in a good family drama - romance, greed, murder, obsessive love, to name but a few things.
Bravo! I wait to see what else this fine writer has to offer.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By Lyn Collins
Format:Paperback
A letter from the past reveals a secret that sets in motion a story of love, deception and intrigue.
A family feud adds to the suspense as the mystery deepens.
A beautifully written book that is hard to put down.
A family feud adds to the suspense as the mystery deepens.
A beautifully written book that is hard to put down.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Having really enjoyed the author's previous book, I wondered whether this would be as good - and it was!
I love happy endings!
I love happy endings!
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Although not my usual genre (one cannot live by blood and guts alone) as a book lover I was drawn to the idea of someone sorting books in an old and creepy house. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Maggie Peplow
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Couldn't recommend
I liked the idea behind the story of this book but I found the style of writing almost child-like and what could have been an exciting story just ended up flat and disappointing.
Published 10 months ago by ramreader
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A thrilling yet comforting tale
Paper Dreams is an interesting story about a girl who has to sort out a collection of books in a creepy, neglected old house. Read more
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