If you've read Jane Lovering's other books you'll already suspect that Yorkshire isn't quite the down-to-earth, call a spade a bloody shovel place you once imagined. (Apart from the one set in America that is, and that's obviously a strange place at the best of times).
This is a tale that has genuinely chilling villains, plus dabblers in the mystic arts with various obscure motives. The central character is someone easily identifiable with apart from her wonderful turn of phrase - the sort of stuff we'd LIKE to come up with - and initially a somewhat pragmatic attitude to sex/love.
This was a real can't-put-it-down read. (Or when forced to put it down, to eat, or… Read more
This is a book I loved as a child, and I also loved the illustrations that are not available in this version. Then again, it didn't cost anything, so I bought it to read the story through again and picture the illustrations I'd seen before.
This book must be somewhere in the house! Meanwhile, I'll enjoy this version.
This was one of my favourite reads over the last few months. I loved E Nesbit's stories as a child, but I'd never come across this one. I read it as my 'bed-time' reading, and I found that during the day I was thinking about it and looking forward to my next read - not all adult books can keep my attention that much!
It's a children's story, but anyone who can step back to the books they loved as children will love this.
