Another mystical tale centred around the Carcassonne area of France. It focuses on a young girl in the 1890s who flees Paris to a country estate in Rennes-les-Bains to escape her brother's violent enemy; a parallel story, set in 2007, focuses on an American researching a biography of Debussy who comes to the same place. While, like Labyrinth (bwl 33), the story is completely preposterous in places, for some reason I simply couldn't put it down.
(Annie Noble - bwl 47 September 2008 ) |
