Books
by Diane Setterfield
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Once Upon a River |
By the Thames in midwinter a pub is filled with storytellers. A drenched, wounded man, holding an apparently dead child arrives. This provides them with their next story and ours. The child, not dead after all but not speaking, is claimed by different people whose stories we hear. The story flows fast and slow, twisting like the river itself. I was captivated by the writing and the atmosphere Setterfield created.
(Christine Miller - bwl 93 Summer 2019) |
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The Thirteenth Tale |
Captivating and difficult to put down, linking characters in an intelligent way while maintaining an intriguing plot, this is Settlefield's debut novel as well as the first of her writing I have read and I definitely want to read more. There is a gothic element and obvious parallels with classics like Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights but the story is unique in the way it is written, in a mesmerising style that is very obviously written by a reader.
(Eloise May - bwl 95 Winter 2020) |
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