riveting and hard to put down" ( Portland Book Review). Set in three different time periods across the twentieth century, A Dark Dividing is "reminiscent of Henry James or Wilkie Collins. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read A Dark Dividing. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. As Harry uncovers the grim history of Mortmain, he finds himself drawn into a set of interlocking mysteries, each one more curious and disturbing than the last. A Dark Dividing - Ebook written by Sarah Rayne. What exactly happened to Simone's twin sister Sonia, to whom she had once been conjoined-and who disappeared years before? And how might Simone and Sonia be connected to another pair of conjoined twins, Viola and Sorrel, born nearly a century ago?Įvery question Harry asks points him to the Shropshire village of West Fferna and a ruined mansion on the Welsh border called Mortmain House.
Journalist Harry Fitzglen is intrigued by his latest subject, the London artist Simone Anderson, whose enigmatic photographs hint at a mysterious past.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.A conjoined twin's disappearance leads a London journalist to a mystery reaching back to the turn of the last century in this "hefty suspense thriller" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review). Harry Fitzglen is a formerly respected reporter now trying to work his back to the top and regain his former reputation. (May)Ĭopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Still, Rayne has crafted a memorable novel with the right mix of suspense, horror and emotion. Well-drawn characters reveal themselves through thoughts and actions more than dialogue, as Rayne favors extensive narration over banter. Rayne writes in a semiformal style that evokes turn-of-the-last-century England and lends the novel an appropriately gothic atmosphere. : A Dark Dividing (9780743450904) by Rayne, Sarah and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices.
As Harry's interest in Simone grows, the story branches into several separate tales: in addition to Harry's present-day investigation, there is the story of another set of conjoined twins, Viola and Sorrel Quinton, born in London 80 years earlier Simone's own history with her twin, Sonia, and her mother, Melissa, dating to the 1980s and the parallel plot of a novel that Harry uncovers during his research, The Ivory Gate, published in the 1900s. When Harry begins digging into Simone's past, however, he discovers that her twin sister, with whom she once was conjoined, mysteriously vanished years ago. Journalist Harry Fitzglen is unimpressed when he's sent to profile a new London artist named Simone Anderson.
Rayne (pseudonym for "a well-known British author") draws readers into four creepy stories in this hefty suspense thriller.
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