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In the spirit of Lisa Jewell and Kate Morton, an emotional mystery set in the rugged remote landscape of north Cornwall full of dark secrets and twists, about three unusual sisters forced to confront the past. Some secrets need to be set free…
When half-sisters Kat, Flora, and Lauren are unexpectedly summoned to Rock Point, their wild and remote Cornish summer home, it's not a welcome invitation. They haven't been back since that fateful summer twenty years ago—a summer they're desperate to forget.
But when they arrive, it's clear they're not alone. Someone is lurking in the shadows, watching their every move. Someone who remembers exactly what they did...
Will the sisters be able to protect the dark past of Rock Point? Or are some secrets too powerful to remain under lock and key?
In the spirit of Lisa Jewell and Kate Morton, an emotional mystery set in the rugged remote landscape of north Cornwall full of dark secrets and twists, about three unusual sisters forced to confront the past. Some secrets need to be set free…
When half-sisters Kat, Flora, and Lauren are unexpectedly summoned to Rock Point, their wild and remote Cornish summer home, it's not a welcome invitation. They haven't been back since that fateful summer twenty years ago—a summer they're desperate to forget.
But when they arrive, it's clear they're not alone. Someone is lurking in the shadows, watching their every move. Someone who remembers exactly what they did...
Will the sisters be able to protect the dark past of Rock Point? Or are some secrets too powerful to remain under lock and key?
בשל מגבלות הוצאה לאור, הספר הזה בפורמט קינדל לא יכול להיות מועבר באופן אלחוטי ויש להורידו ולהעבירו באמצעות USB.
עקב הגבלות המוציא לאור הספריה אינה יכולה לרכוש עותקים נוספים של הכותר, אנו מתנצלים אם יש רשימת המתנה ארוכה. וודא שבדקת עותקים אחרים, מכיוון שיכולות להיות מהדורות אחרות זמינות.
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From the cover1
Lauren
Three days earlier 4 January 2019
The snow is still falling, feathery flakes whirling in the golden light of the train window, then sucked into the black. But the 14:04 London-Penzance keeps hurtling west, drawing Lauren closer to Rock Point, the house she fled one summer's day twenty years before. Her gaze flicks to the carriage's emergency stop button, away again. Ridiculous. It's only three nights. And she has a promise to keep.
With a metallic screech, the train lurches. Lauren grabs the back of a seat, her hands small, strong; nails clipped short to disguise the biting and painted the sort of pale pink she hopes won't show chips. Since offering her seat to a mother and her toddler an hour ago, she's been stuck swaying in the crowded aisle, wedged between dandruffy shoulders and boxy sales bags advertising department stores she can't afford. Lying across her feet, a gym holdall never used for its intended purpose, hurriedly packed, quite possibly without her phone charger or enough knickers. And almost certainly the wrong clothes for a reunion with Kat and Flora, the half sisters she rarely sees.
Her father's email had landed on Boxing Day, knocking the air right out of her. She'd had to read it three times, sunk to the floor of her Whitechapel kitchen, emptied of flatmates over the holidays. Pinning her hopes on the invitation being some sort of awkward mistake, she didn't reply. But Dad left voicemails. He texted: "Charlie Finch will not take no for an answer!!! You must come, Laurie. I have an important announcement to make. P.S. Kat and Flora think this reunion a MARVELOUS idea."
Ever since, Lauren's tried extremely hard not to think about the last time they were all together at Rock Point: the thrilling, appalling summer of the total solar eclipse, 1999. But whenever she drifts or blinks, there it is: Girls and Birdcage, the portrait they sat for that August, in their artist father's Cornish studio. She dreamed about the painting last night, tossing and turning as the London snow fell. And she can still see it now, like a hologram projected on the carriage wall.
Caught in meaty gouges of their father's oils: her younger self-a scruffy shy scribble of a thing-and her older half sisters, Kat and Flora, with their fearless gazes and rich-girl glitter. The three of them glowing from sea and sun-the delirious freedom of cliffs and coves; those precious days before the eclipse-squished on a white sofa next to the black dome of a large empty birdcage.
Charlie Finch's masterpiece, the critics agree. But really, it's a piece of them. As they were. The girls in that painting climbed out of its gilt frame-and into separate lives-long ago.
"Excuse me?"
Lauren startles, and the painting pops like a soap bubble.
Sitting in the adjacent window seat, the man is studying her with navy eyes. He has one of those roughly cut, craggy faces that don't reveal themselves straightaway. Something about him pings in Lauren. She hasn't the foggiest why.
"You've been standing for ages." He speaks with an unmistakable Cornish burr, just in case she needed a reminder of where she's headed. "Here, please... my seat." Rising to his full rangy height, he sloshes takeaway coffee on his jeans. The woman sitting beside him irritably yanks her handbag to her knee.
"I'm good. Thank you, though," Lauren says after a beat, stupidly flustered. She's spent too much time alone over Christmas, lost all her social skills. Grief has opened her up like a whelk.
The man nods, lowers again. But his gaze sticks, like a handshake that goes on too long. Feeling exposed, Lauren stares...
על המחבר-
Eve Chase is the author of Black Rabbit Hall, The Wildling Sisters, and The Daughters of Foxcote Manor. She lives in Oxford, England with her husband and three children.
ביקורות-
May 23, 2022 This moody psychological thriller from Chase (The Daughter of Foxcote Manor) opens in January 2019, when three half-sisters, Kat, Flora, and Lauren, are summoned by their eccentric artist father to his picturesque Cornish summer cottage for a surprise announcement. The sisters spent idyllic summers on the coast with their father when they were young, but they’ve avoided one another since the summer of 1999, when a tragedy tore the family apart. Now finally thrown together again, Kat, Flora, and Lauren are forced to deal with their involvement in a horrendous event that has overshadowed their lives for 20 years. The tension ramps up when they realize that someone is watching them—someone who knows what they did. Chase does a good job depicting family relationships, and while it’s hard to like some of the deeply flawed characters at first, as their individual stories unfold, the reader can’t help empathizing with even the most vile of them. Exquisite prose and an evocative setting compensate for a buildup that leads to not so many surprises and not much of a payoff. Those who value style over story will best appreciate this. Agent: Lizzy Kremer, David Higham Assoc. (U.K.)
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