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The Telling (2008)

by Jo Baker(Favorite Author)

3.24 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1846271398 (ISBN13: 9781846271397)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Portobello Books

review 1: I was really looking forward to this book. I thought it would be a good October read, since it's supposed to be a ghost story. It was hardly a ghost story. Or at least, it wasn't scary or eerie at all. The structure - parallel stories of Rachel and Elizabeth - took away from the ghostly potential of the book. I understand that Baker was trying to build suspense, but it felt forced. The story took a while to really get going but then it was over too soon, and for that I'd give it 3.5 stars.
review 2: This book is two stories overlaying each other about two young women from different eras, both struggling with love and loss in vastly different circumstances.It is intensely detailed and as such unfolds slowly and draws you in. the narrative is internalised so the ... morestory is told through the two girls observations and feelings. The Chartist movement which Elizabeth becomes drawn into is very interesting as an historical event. In gentle ways the author covers many emotional issues from post natal depression to the desperate injustice of being clever but not regarded as worthy of an education, and general inequality of a nation beholden to the upper classes by account of birth. The story of Elizabeth comes to dominate the narrative as Rachel moves towards a much happier ending. less

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