“"Pa used to say that any piece of history might be made into a tale; it was only deciding where the tale began, and where it ended."
Since it's October, the month of Halloween, I decided to read a book that promised to be creepy. This novel by Sarah Waters fit the bill nicely. The setting is Victorian London. There are two female leads, Margaret Prior, a nervous, pale, and unhappy girl who decides to visit lady prisoners at Millbank Prison after the death of her father. The other principal character is one of those prisoners, Selina Dawes, a spiritualist convicted of causing the death of her patron. This is in many ways a classic gothic novel, complete with creepy settings, mourning for lost loves, ghosts (maybe), and an undercurrent of passion. The story unfolds in chapters that alternate between Margaret's diary and Selina's. Waters never fails to pen page turners, and this one had me up late, anxious to see how the tangled web of the plot unraveled itself. The plot has more twists than London streets, a real pleasure.”
sthurner wrote this review Tuesday, October 13 2009.
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