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| Original Title: | The Shadow Year |
| ISBN: | 1409142981 (ISBN13: 9781409142980) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | England |
Hannah Richell
Hardcover | Pages: 416 pages Rating: 3.91 | 3346 Users | 503 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Shadow Year |
| Author | : | Hannah Richell |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 416 pages |
| Published | : | June 20th 2013 by Orion Publishing (first published April 30th 2013) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Mystery. Contemporary. Historical. Historical Fiction. Adult |
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On a sultry summer’s day in 1980, five friends stumble upon an abandoned lakeside cottage hidden deep in the English countryside. For Kat and her friends, it offers an escape; a chance to drop out for a while, with lazy summer days by the lake and intimate winter evenings around the fire. But as the seasons change, tensions begin to rise and when an unexpected visitor appears at their door, nothing will be the same again. Three decades later, Lila arrives at the same remote cottage. With her marriage in crisis, she finds solace in renovating the tumbledown house. Little by little she wonders about the previous inhabitants. How did they manage in such isolation? Why did they leave in such a hurry, with their belongings still strewn about? Most disturbing of all, why can t she shake the feeling that someone might be watching her? The Shadow Year is a story of secrets, tragedy, lies and betrayal. It’s a tale that explores the light and dark of human relationships and the potential the past has to not only touch our present, but also to alter our future.Rating Of Books The Shadow Year
Ratings: 3.91 From 3346 Users | 503 ReviewsEvaluate Of Books The Shadow Year
This is nothing like my usual genre, but it sounded interesting. There are two different timelines wound together, and this is done wonderfully well. The plot is exposed slowly, very slowly as we go from 1980 and then 30 years later, back and forth. The youngsters in the 1980's timeline are flawed, silly, stupid, immature, and I just wanted to shake them. But it's possible from the narrative to see how one person can create almost a cult-like group, simply by the strength of their personality.Favorite Quotes:If shes going to be murdered in a random cottage in the middle of nowhere, she might as well be in a vaguely comatose state when it happensShe stares out over the lake and shivers. She just cant seem to shake the feeling that the old place is trying to tell her something. Its probably exhaustion, she thinks, but out here, all by herself, a person could definitely go a little crazyOutside in the daylight, in the brisk fresh air, her nightmares fade away. Its always the way, she
Five friends stumble upon a remote cottage and decide to stay and live there. 30 years later Lila arrives at the same cottage after being sent a key by an anonymous person. Who sent the key and which secrets does the cottage hide?This book is one of the best books I have ever read. The suspense that the author creates is amazing and nail biting. I was drawn to the story from the first few pages onwards.Life at the cottage is brilliantly described. From the beauty of the surroundings during the
For some reasons, I really enjoyed this book. Probably most of us have toyed with the idea of spending let's say not a year , but at least several days in a recluse cabin in mountains , reconnecting with nature and our souls. The allusions to Thoreau's book Walden are more or less obvious ( Simon seems to be quoting Thoreau himself when he pleads and persuades the others to join him in the one-year experiment of living in a stone cottage by a lake in the English countryside). The reader is
This book was a goodreads-algorithm-generated recommendation for me. I don't click on all of those, but I did on this one, and when I did, I noticed that the official tagline for the book was "Five friends. An abandoned house. A secret they can't bury." The superficial resemblance of that description to one element of my Most Beloved Book, Tana French's The Likeness , was so uncanny that I laughed really hard about how the goodreads algorithm could pooooooossibly have thought I might be
I really enjoyed Hannah Richell's debut novel, Secrets of the Tides, and jumped at the chance of receiving a review copy of The Shadow Year. This is blurbed as 'another mesmerising story of tragedy, lies and betrayal.'In the novel, protagonist Lila Bailey receives a package 'out of the blue', which consists of a letter and a key. She has no idea who could have done such a thing, but someone has anonymously bequeathed her a 'remote lakeside cottage and the timing couldn't be better; with her
I really enjoyed Hannah Richell's debut novel, Secrets of the Tides, and jumped at the chance of receiving a review copy of The Shadow Year. This is blurbed as 'another mesmerising story of tragedy, lies and betrayal.'In the novel, protagonist Lila Bailey receives a package 'out of the blue', which consists of a letter and a key. She has no idea who could have done such a thing, but someone has anonymously bequeathed her a 'remote lakeside cottage and the timing couldn't be better; with her
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