Karen Perkins
Autore di Thores-Cross
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: Karen Perkins
Serie
Opere di Karen Perkins
Knight of Betrayal: A Yorkshire Ghost Story Novel (A Haunting by Henry II, Thomas Becket and Four Murderous Knights)… (2015) 3 copie
The Haunting of Thores-Cross: A dual timeline Yorkshire ghost story (Ghosts of Thores-Cross Book 1) 2 copie
The Valkyrie Series: The First Fleet - (Books 1-3) Look Sharpe!, Ill Wind & Dead Reckoning: Caribbean Pirate Adventure (2016) 1 copia
The LionheART Guide to Formatting for Kindle: A Self-Publishing Guide for Independent Authors (2016) 1 copia
The LionheART Guide to Formatting EPUBs: A Self-Publishing Guide for Independent Authors (2016) 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Perkins, Karen
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- UK
England - Nazione (per mappa)
- England, UK
- Luogo di nascita
- North Yorkshire, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, UK
- Istruzione
- Harrogate Grammar School
- Attività lavorative
- author
publisher - Organizzazioni
- Society of Authors
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 19
- Utenti
- 175
- Popolarità
- #122,547
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 6
- ISBN
- 26
Recently divorced Verity Earnshaw returns to her father's roots in Haworth - from Leeds, ostensibly, but she comes across like a southerner! - to set up a bed and breakfast in a converted row of weavers' cottages on Main Street. Her two friends, Jayne and Lara and Lara's daughter Hannah, join her for the Christmas period and local builder Vikram and his team set about gutting the former restaurant to make Verity's dream a reality. There are rumours that the cottages are haunted by the 'Grey Lady' but Verity dismisses the troubled history of her new house - until strange glowing orbs are seen and Verity starts having vivid dreams about the Victorian history of Haworth - the dark satanic mills, poor sanitation and high mortality rate. She is lead through the past by a dark, brooding figure who could be the fictional Heathcliff - or a very real threat to Verity.
The story is oddly paced - a chick lit tourist guide to Haworth in the first half, with a few ghostly dreams thrown in, and then an all out Mexican soap opera for the final few chapters, complete with
Melodrama aside, I enjoyed the stay in Haworth, with detailed research of the past, a likeable portrayal of Emily - no sex with the curate in a barn here - and poetic descriptions of the moors. The 'Yorkshire glossary' made me laugh, though - owt, nowt and mesen. Joseph might have needed subtitles in Wuthering Heights but I think most people can translate the modern Yorshire terms in this story!… (altro)