- Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: Corgi; Reprint edition (15 Dec 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 055214889X
- ISBN-13: 978-0552148894
- Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 9.8 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 597,515 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A single woman living alone in the middle of nowhere, amid a handful of peculiar neighbours and with a past that continues to haunt her--what more is needed as the basis for a thriller? Only things that go bump in the night and a mysterious figure that appears in the fields. White delivers all this and more to produce a classic that tingles the spine, just as it promises.
When a child under her jurisdiction is murdered at the hands of an abusive family, social worker Georgina Jefferson suffers an inevitable, and unbearable backlash. Desperate to escape the adverse media attention, she moves to the cottage of her recently deceased brother. Not only does she believe this to be a good way to discover more about a brother she never knew, she also feels a winter spent on her own in the country will help her get her life back on track. Foolish sentiments indeed, as it transpires, especially when a burnt doll is discovered in the woodshed....
White controls the pace of this well-written novel with supreme skill, building up a tangible atmosphere of fear which threatens to unhinge Georgina completely. Delicious stuff. --Claire Allfree --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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On a snowbound February day, when Georgina first saw Furze Pen - a picturesque thatched cottage in a peaceful valley on Dartmoor - she decided it was the perfect place to recover from the recent nightmare of her job in London - until the terrors started.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Another fantastic read from Gillian White. Her ability to bring characters alive is amazing, they seem to stay with you long after the book is put aside and become a part of your everyday thoughts during and after the read.
I am usually a slow reader but I took this book everywhere with me, even in the bath, and completed it within 2 days....I just couldn't put it down!
I considered many different theories as I read, changing my mind more than once as to what the final plot may be - Only to finally find that none of my theories met with the clever finality Gillian White had created - I remember mumbling "oh my God" out loud as I read through the final chapters.
Such detail combined with so much mystery is surely a skill? These skills mixed with an intelligent yet easily dissolved language can only come to produce a winning thriller.
This was my second read, "Refuge" being my first and I now have 2 more on order......Gillian White creates a thirst within you that only more of her work can quench!
OUTSTANDING!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
i have just finished reading Unhallowed Ground by Gillian White and it was absolutely brilliant.
Gillian White writes so well that you actually feel as though you are "in the book"with the characters.
although a bit slow to start with-it actually helps to keep the tension of the story going.
I never felt terrified whilst reading it,but it had a strange menacing feel to it.
The characters in the little hamlet where most of the story takes place are very real. I live in the country and can identify some of the characters in some hamlets near by.
I have Night Visitor to read next-hope its as good as Unhallowed Ground.An excellent book.
Gillian White writes so well that you actually feel as though you are "in the book"with the characters.
although a bit slow to start with-it actually helps to keep the tension of the story going.
I never felt terrified whilst reading it,but it had a strange menacing feel to it.
The characters in the little hamlet where most of the story takes place are very real. I live in the country and can identify some of the characters in some hamlets near by.
I have Night Visitor to read next-hope its as good as Unhallowed Ground.An excellent book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Georgie inherits a house in the middle of nowhere, needing an escape hole she eagerly goes to live in it, and gets to know her new neighbours good story, the flashbacks are well done, but slightly annoying
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Just did not like it.
I have had this book for a good few years now and had never read it. So when i came across it when tidying up one day last week, i thought i would give it a go as the synopsis on... Read more
Published on 15 Jun 2006 by CC
Disappointing,quite unlike her usual sharp,excellent writing
As a fan of Gillian White, I was very disappointed with this stereotypical, formula horror book, so unlike her terrific other books. Read more
Published on 18 Nov 2000 by Mrs Lesley Williams
Delivers a couple of good shocks, including the ending
I found this entertaining and atmospheric and didn't see the suprises coming at all. Only minus points were the heroine's anguished reflections over mistakes in her past which had... Read more
Published on 3 July 2000
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