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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Not Many Like This, 23 Jul 2006
I first read this book when I was 14 years old, during the school holidays; which means that it was 51 years ago.I think it is a fabulous book and I am reading it again at this present time.It is one of only two books that I have read again and again during my life-time, the other one being Wuthering Heights!
Robert Neill captivates his audience from page one. I travelled with Margery from London in the cart. I was by her side when she first met Roger Nowell at the Inn in Preston and I have remained with her ever since,roaming dear old Pendle Hill, riding through the Forest, visiting Marton at Christmas,helping Christopher Southworth to escape;trembling in my shoes when having to face 'dear Alice Nutter.
The author knows his territory well. I could wish I knew the author as well. Little is known ,if anything at all about Robert Neill, at least from my point of view I don't know anything at all about him, or maybe it's a her!Maybe someone who knows could write in and let us know.
For the people who live in the shadow of Pendle, as I do, mist over Pendle is as good as a guide book and who but North Country folk would know that Daylight Gate is twilight time.
Robert Neill has held my attention for more than fifty years, with Margery, Grace, Tony Nutter, priests and papists.With Demdike, Chattox,Squinting Lizzie, our Alice and the long-winded parsons. Yes, I certainly recommend that every-one should have a copy of Mist over Pendle by Robert Neill.When I look up from writing this re-view Ilook staight out over Pendle, lovely old Pendle, my Pendle.
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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Book You'll Return To Again & Again!, 4 Dec 2002
This book is all the more interesting for it's basis in fact. the Pendle Witches did exist, and were probably just how they are described in this story. The heroine, Margery, holds our interest from the start, as she is intelligent, lively and courageous. On coming to Pendle, she is immediately faced with the fact of suspected witchcraft in the local community and the muddy undercurrents of malice and hatred which pervade the apparently quiet and peaceful countryside. The story follows Margery's involvment in all that follows ending in the bringing to justice of the witches. All the characters in this story are very well drawn and the flavour of the period comes across very strongly. I have read this book so often that my first copy fell to pieces and I had to buy another!
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13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A piece of home, every year, from 300 miles away, 2 Mar 2002
In the 17th Century, Margery, moved from her home in London to the 'unsophisticated' but beautiful people and hills of the North. A strong tale of prejudice, religious repression, fear yet fair justice; one wonders whether these 'bewitched' people were really bad or just simple and misunderstood. In a move similar to that of Margery's, but in the opposite direction, I moved from Pendle to London over twenty years ago. I read this book each year and it's a piece of home on my bookshelf. I've given the book to my children, my partner and friends all over the world. They too have fallen in love with the mystery of North East Lancashire. Strangely the story always seems new to me, I devour it with relish, savour the siren call of Pendle Hill and dream of my childhood. Heaven !
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