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Wringland (Paperback)

by Sally Spedding (Author)
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  • Paperback: 688 pages
  • Publisher: Pan Books; New edition edition (6 Sep 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0330486950
  • ISBN-13: 978-0330486958
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 475,897 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A novel of chilling menace and powerful atmosphere set in haunted fen country. Her new job negotiating sales for Holtbury Prestige Homes takes Abbie Parker to sinister Black Fen. From the moment she arrives, Abbie falls prey to bizarre incidents both on the building site and in the surrounding wet-lands. The unwanted attentions of a deranged clergyman, the increasingly odd behaviour of her soldier boyfriend, growing awareness of the appalling abuse heaped on a strange little girl, all of these are trial enough. But Abbie's real nightmares begins with the disembodied voices of singing children, the constant reappearance of a battered prayerbook...and the gloating laughter of Martha Robinson, hanged for infanticide a century earlier.

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A chance visit to The Wash - it being the nearest sea to me here in the landlocked Midlands - resulted in an instant and palpable sense of unease. Each time I returned for further research, this feeling increased. I am extremely sensitive to place, and, apart from certain areas of France, I have never felt so threatened by the openness, the emptiness of that strange landscape. It is full of ghosts... --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Wringland by Sally Spedding, 14 Oct 2001
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Even if you are not into thrillers you will find this unusual book, with its historical theme running parallel to its modern counterpart, gripping, pacy and page-turningly riveting.

The action focuses on a young woman who falls prey to the strange haunting atmosphere of the Fens and who gradually, against her will, is sucked deeper and deeper into a horrifying nightmare. I found her frustration - at not being able to persuade either the police or the social services that events that are occurring are real - totally convincing and very topical.

The past, which is re-enacted so vengefully in the present, appears throughout the book in short vignettes that capture the idiomatic speech and flavour of a harsher reality.

This is a truly original and exciting novel that moves at a relentless pace towards a final outcome that is as unexpected as it is terrifying. I was left wanting more.

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5.0 out of 5 stars An exceptional ghost story; gritty, gripping and intense., 10 May 2004
By Stuart Allison (Driffield, East Yorkshire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
Powerful, disturbing, intense and engaging, the narrative moves this story at a pace that never falters. Finely drawn characters move, repel, haunt and enmesh the reader in this tale of a young woman and her man as they struggle to understand and attempt to defeat the potent forces stacked against them. Quinn, the sinister but complex tool of evil, controlled by the spirit of the vengeful Martha, embodies a type of wickedness that can reside only in the being of an uncertain man of the cloth. Abbie, essentially open but naïve, provides a wonderful example of the honest thinker caught up in the material world of corrupt sales: a heroine who grows through the experiences she faces.
Sally Spedding’s sense of place is superb and captures the dreary, claustrophobic atmosphere of the Fens with such accuracy that the reader can smell the tide-washed mud, feel the weight of sky and hear the ever present motion of the water.
This is a thriller that tackles the world of ghosts and the spiritual supernatural with confidence enough to draw in the disbeliever. The very humanity of the characters compels the reader to follow them through their trials to the conclusion. Un-put-downable.
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