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LOVED this! Love Katherine Webb's beautiful books - great story, brilliant writing!
The story starts in Slaughterford, Wiltshire. The year is 1922. Irene has recently married and moved from London to the town with her new husband Alistair where they live with his Aunt Nancy who raised him. Pudding Cartwright, daughter of the town’s doctor is training as a groom. She lives with her mother Louise who has mental issues and her brother Donny, who has come back from the Great War a different person to what he was before. When a murder of one of their own, who is well liked or loved
A secret buried so deep, only a liar could uncover itI had this book pre ordered from amazon in kindle format, i was that eager to read it i waited up until midnight so i could could start reading it straight away.I have read all of Katherine Webb’s book and loved them all but i do think this book is my favourite!Set in 1922 The story takes place in a small village in Slaughterford and revolves around the Cartwright family. The characters are well written and make you feel like you know them per...
Although the whodunit part of this mystery was easy to figure out well before the half-way mark, the characters and setting kept me happy to stay with the book to the very end. Well done!
Imagine it's a cold winter's day, you're curled up in your favourite comfortable chair in front of a wonderful roaring fire with a cup of hot steaming cocoa (or your favourite hot drink), there's frost on the trees outside but you're inside reading this huge but wonderful book. That's the only way I can describe it; it's utterly delicious in every way. It has one of the biggest twists I have ever read in a book and was absolutely jaw dropping. I didn't see it coming at all and I can't stop think...
I find this author very hit and miss, rating her books between 5 and 2 stars.As with all her books, The Hiding Places has a well crafted plot that should make for a great read, but as with too many of her tales, the plot is dragged down by way too much padding. There's reams of it - page after page after page of rambling descriptions and inner monologues, and minutely detailed backstories that had no relevance to anything that actually happened. Despite adoring a couple of the characters and won...
A lovely little read with a twist at the end which I did not see coming!
3-4 starsSuch a quaint read! I can't say too much as it'll give away an excellent twist at the end but this was such a lovely whodunit from times gone by
Safety Net Turned Murder SceneAnother brilliantly written novel by Katherine Webb. She’s weaves together a whodunit here that will keep you wondering until the end.
Visit the locations in the novel SlaughterfordIt reads like a tapestry of a time gone by and each of the characters are woven into the scene with style – Charmingly stubborn Pudding, Mute Clemmie, Alistair and new wife Irene who remains an outsider, having escaped something from London. Then there’s the family everyone is told to avoid.The murder takes place at least 100 pages into the story but it’s the build up and scene setting which brings the shocks. Each character is carefully crafted and
Wow! What a read! I loved this book! The story kept me completely engaged from the beginning to the end. It was a real wrench to put the book down! The story begins in the village of Slaughterford, not long after the end of WW1. The villagers have all been affected in some way by the recent conflict, none more so than the local doctor's son, Donny, who has returned but with a severe head injury. Meanwhile the local squire, Alastair, has brought a new wife home to live in the Manor House with his...
Brilliant evocative novel, got really lost in it, the characters are fantastically well drawn. Twists have been overdone, but the one in this book is stupendous. However, I'd advise against spoiling your reading by trying to anticipate it, just lose yourself in the story! I don't think the blurb does justice to this book at all, a frequent issue of mine, but particularly true here. In fact, it could be said to constitute a spoiler, though I only say that with the benefit of hindsight. Anyway, hu...
A dark and twisted tale! As always, Katherine Webb draws you in and spins a tale that keeps you on the edge of your seat! Can't wait for a new tale from her!
The last 50 pages were the saving grace I found. It was a nice enough story, but I felt it rather plodded on until that twist. Then the final chapters flew by and I got the buzz of a good story I'd been waiting for. That said, the impact of such a twist may not have been felt so keenly had it not been for the more sedate preamble...
This book managed to present a beautifully crafted picture of another era, whilst maintaining a storyline which kept me interested in finding out more. The descriptions of the people and places were elaborated just well enough to enable the reader to picture them fully, without getting bogged down in unnecessary detail. I would describe this as a slow-burn drama/mystery, but in spite of its pacing I was never bored. The time-bending twist at the end caught me off guard in a good way, as I often
I read this very carefully having been warned by a friend that the ending was a puzzle. I was glad of the warning. It would have been easy to miss an essential construct of the story if you skimmed it quickly. I prefer to be warned when two timelines are being written about, but here we are thrown straight in, and the two are intermingled willy-nilly. At the end I was tempted to go back through and check for anomalies and where the cross-overs happened, but this is not easy when reading on a Kob...
