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This is the second book I have read by Waters. Fingersmith my first encounter with her, was so amazing that I may have brought unrealistic expectations to this novel. In the years after the War, a country doctor befriends a formerly wealthy family (a mother and her two adult children) living at their decaying British estate. Injured in the War, the son is crippled by his physical and psychic wounds. But soon, the strange phenomenon the young man claims to experience is reported by other family m
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A wonderful revision of the Gothic novel--big creepy house, crazy women trapped in said house, a naive and confused hero, and one mean ghost. It bites! It scratches! It defaces property and wrecks havoc in the gardens! (This last one is so British). I enjoyed myself thoroughly and I'm not surprised it was short listed for the Booker Prize.
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I just couldnb't get into this book...maybe it just isn't fast enough for me. I really loved Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith but couldn't get involved. Gave it my 100 page limit and that was enough.
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