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A review by beedee
The Woman in the Wood by Lesley Pearse
5.0
Thanks to Net Galley & Penguin UK for this book in exchange for a review.
The beginning of the story was a little bit slow for me but I kept reading. I sensed there is a lot going to happen and everything said in the first chapters has a meaning.
The story is about fifteen-year-old Maisy Mitcham and her twin brother Duncan who lose their mother to an asylum one night in 1960. The twins are sent to their grandmother's country house, Nightingales. Cold and distant, she leaves them to their own devices, to explore and to grow. Their father rarely sees them. But one day Duncan doesn't come home from the woods. Not everyone treats his disappearance seriously. The police investigation seems to be insufficient. The only person who is convinced something really bad happened to Duncan is his twin sister Maisy.
I don’t to want to reveal too much but there is real family drama, untold secrets, crime and a little bit of romance. Everything nicely packed in a beautiful story. So good that when the last sentence came I was surprised it was the end. I was convinced my kindle is not working when the next page didn’t turn on. Another interesting thing: the way all characters are presented, we see how the time changed since 1960s. The whole story told as of today, would have completely different repercussion. I wanted to shout at one of the characters “oh, it would help if you had had a mobile” but she couldn’t have had it….not in the 1960s….I am happy that the author placed the story fifty years ago. Brilliantly told, not a moment of boredom.
It is my first book by Lesley Pearse but not the last one.
The beginning of the story was a little bit slow for me but I kept reading. I sensed there is a lot going to happen and everything said in the first chapters has a meaning.
The story is about fifteen-year-old Maisy Mitcham and her twin brother Duncan who lose their mother to an asylum one night in 1960. The twins are sent to their grandmother's country house, Nightingales. Cold and distant, she leaves them to their own devices, to explore and to grow. Their father rarely sees them. But one day Duncan doesn't come home from the woods. Not everyone treats his disappearance seriously. The police investigation seems to be insufficient. The only person who is convinced something really bad happened to Duncan is his twin sister Maisy.
I don’t to want to reveal too much but there is real family drama, untold secrets, crime and a little bit of romance. Everything nicely packed in a beautiful story. So good that when the last sentence came I was surprised it was the end. I was convinced my kindle is not working when the next page didn’t turn on. Another interesting thing: the way all characters are presented, we see how the time changed since 1960s. The whole story told as of today, would have completely different repercussion. I wanted to shout at one of the characters “oh, it would help if you had had a mobile” but she couldn’t have had it….not in the 1960s….I am happy that the author placed the story fifty years ago. Brilliantly told, not a moment of boredom.
It is my first book by Lesley Pearse but not the last one.