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Larkswood (2014)

by Valerie Mendes(Favorite Author)

3.58 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1409129381 (ISBN13: 9781409129394)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Orion

review 1: Interesting story about a family's dark past. The truth proves to be very unexpected. The story takes place in two time periods—in 1897 when the family scandal took place at Larkswood House and was hastily covered up, and in 1939, when the granddaughter of one of the members involved int he scandal come back to the house. Louisa Hamilton falls ill during her debut Season in London and is sent to stay with her grandfather at Larkswood to recover. As she does, she discovers both the family secrets, and the fact that she wants a very different kind of life than the one her mother has planned for her. The story was enjoyable and light, the ending satisfying.
review 2: This really is a rather silly book, it is beyond melodramatic, a real modern gothic novel. Cert... moreain parts of the writing made me cringe, for example all of the villagers seemed to end every sentence with the phrase 'certain sure' this was rather irritating. However despite the obvious flaws of this book I found myself really enjoying it. The story goes from one extreme to another; set in 1939 and in the late 19th century this story has a huge rambling gothic house, incest, cruel parents, disinherited children, lesbians, secretly burried children and true love across the class divide. It left me feeling caught up in the romantic gothic insanity of the whole thing. less

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