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I had the dream again. And there she was. The little girl. She was standing, as she always stands, on the bank of the river. Grass green beneath her feet. Little red shoes, little white dress. Sara and Tom Ravenscroft need to escape London after a traumatic event nearly kills Tom. Their search for a safer, simpler life in the country takes them to the edge of Cornwall, to a house deep in its own valley, and the river that runs through it. But the locals are hardly welcoming, and it is not long before Sara begins to struggle with the isolation; the haunting dream that has plagued her since childhood starts to creep into the everyday - does the past hold the key to her dream or is it the present she needs to be wary of?
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Is Sara mad or haunted? Mad or haunted? The question keeps recurring and won't be laid to rest. There are real unexplained phenomena that others experience but this is the ordinary world of London's chattering classes and solid rural folk. Why does the ground resist Tom's powerful machines? Is he just an inept yuppie pursuing a false rural idyll or is there a supernatural force against him? Sara subconsciously yearns for a child but her conscious self is in a comfortable pact with Tom, enjoy life, no children. The reader senses the tension in her psyche creates a distorting prism before Sara's eyes, but this is the reader's only view of a world, at once strange and commonplace. After many twists and false leads we reach a final conclusion, which somehow seemed inevitable in retrospect. This is a book I feel Stephen King would have been proud to have written, if he ever read it, and if he hadn't written quite a lot of good books already, well you know what I mean.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I have just finished reading this and am almost sorry I have finished, as I enjoyed it so much. What a page turner, I could hardly put this book down at times. I have read all Penelope Evans books since she wrote "The Last Girl" in 1995 and she just gets better and better.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The book starts with Sara having another one of her recurring dreams;the same dream she has been plagued with sine childhood: standing perilously close to a rivers edge is a little girl wearing a little white dress and little red shoes. Just as it looks like she will fall into the water, the dream ends.
Sara and Tom live in London and met ten years ago when the both discovered that they had something huge and binding in common - they were both orphaned as babies (survivors of accidents in which both sets of parents died).
During a weekend break in the south west of England, the couple come across an advert in an estate agent window for a house in its own nine acre valley in Cornwall. They drive to see the house as Tom (who only a few weeks ago got caught up in the London bombings) is desperate to leave London and live in Cornwall and grow vegetables. While visiting the propery, Sara looks out of the bedroom window and sees a little girl standing at the edge of the river that runs through the valley. She is wearing a little white dress and little red shoes.
I don't want to say too much more about the plot as it's always nice to find things out for yourself when reading a book rather than knowing what's coming.
For the first half of this book I was enraptured; I loved the pace, the style the delivery, everything. I was all set for giving it full marks but I have to confess that from about the half-way point I began to lose interest. I can't put my finger on at what point or why necessarily but I did find myself racing to get to the end rather than just enjoying going with the flow. This is my first Evans book and while I did really enjoy it as a good summer read (I read it on holiday) I'm not sure I could rave about it.
Sara and Tom live in London and met ten years ago when the both discovered that they had something huge and binding in common - they were both orphaned as babies (survivors of accidents in which both sets of parents died).
During a weekend break in the south west of England, the couple come across an advert in an estate agent window for a house in its own nine acre valley in Cornwall. They drive to see the house as Tom (who only a few weeks ago got caught up in the London bombings) is desperate to leave London and live in Cornwall and grow vegetables. While visiting the propery, Sara looks out of the bedroom window and sees a little girl standing at the edge of the river that runs through the valley. She is wearing a little white dress and little red shoes.
I don't want to say too much more about the plot as it's always nice to find things out for yourself when reading a book rather than knowing what's coming.
For the first half of this book I was enraptured; I loved the pace, the style the delivery, everything. I was all set for giving it full marks but I have to confess that from about the half-way point I began to lose interest. I can't put my finger on at what point or why necessarily but I did find myself racing to get to the end rather than just enjoying going with the flow. This is my first Evans book and while I did really enjoy it as a good summer read (I read it on holiday) I'm not sure I could rave about it.
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