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Sto caricando le informazioni... Bury Her Deepdi Catriona McPherson
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I enjoy Dandy and the way the narration makes me think of Diary of a Provincial Lady with flashes of Wodehouse. Not sure about the grand (or petit) guignol plot elements. ( ) Strange blend of mystery and superstition. Dandy investigates a stranger who is pouncing on ladies in the village and she's lured there by the pastor to investigate and to do a speech to the local ladies institute about budgeting. It didn't engage me like many others I've read. There's a sideline about Dandy's husband realising that she's getting money from somewhere and hanging out with a young man occasionally. It just felt a little plodding. The third in the Dandy Gilver series, this takes a turn for the dark, weird, and, in places, decidedly nasty (a warning for the squeamish: something unpleasant and quite, quite unnecessary happens to a cat toward the end). It's also, to be brutally honest, a bit of a mess – the plot never quite hangs together, the characters behave in the most erratic and irrational manners imaginable, and the ending is decidedly unsatisfactory. (There is also a very notable problem with a point of view shift, again toward the end of the book. As these stories are first-person narrated, it presents a bit of a problem when the narrator's rendered unconscious …) A disappointment. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Appartiene alle SerieDandy Gilver (3)
Dear Alec, Remember my engagement yesterday? The annual duty luncheon for the Reverend Mr Tait from which and whom I expected only boredom? I could hardly have been more wrong, Alec dear, and I am this minute packing to follow the Reverend home to his manse in Fife, there to attend a meeting of the Rural Womens' Institute. Hardly a house party at which one would usually leap, I grant you, but not only is the man himself a perfect darling - imagine Father Christmas shaved clean and draped in tweed - but his parish, it seems, heaves with more violent passions than a Buenos Aires bordello. A stranger, you see, is roaming the night and pouncing on the ladies of the Rural. At least that's the tale they're telling and the one that Mr Tait told me, but since half the village think he's a figment and he only ever strikes at the full moon, I cannot help but wonder if there's something even odder going on . . . Much love and remember me fondly if the dark stranger gets me, Dandy xx Catriona McPherson's latest novel in the series, Dandy Gilver and a Spot of Toil and Trouble is now available for pre-order. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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