Picked this up in a charity shop in York.

I have copies of her two most well known books, Labyrinth and Sepulchre, but I haven't gotten around to reading them yet. People rave about her work. This book was ok for a lazy afternoon's read, but it wasn't anything amazing, and to be honest it was a bit something and nothing.

It's a short story, a ghost story set in the south of France. Not the frightening kind of ghost story, but the connecting with history kind of ghost story. Just after the first world war, Freddie, a what ho English lad, is on holiday in France. He has a car accident and has to make an unplanned stop in a little mountain village. On the evening he meets Marie, who wears strange, very old fashioned clothes (why oh why could that be?) and she encourages him to go up into the hills to find the caves where she says she and her family ran to hide from persecution, and never returned....

As I said, all right to pass the time but nothing particularly amazing.

Sending this off as a birthday surprise as part of the 2012 bookcrossing birthday club. This bookcrosser has their birthday on the day I start my new job! Happy Reading!

Thank you, I'm looking forward to trying this but it may be a while until I can get to it as my TBR pile is massive,thanks too for the origami figure.
Hope your first day in your new job went well and you are happy in it.

I really enjoyed this, such a good story. Thanks again Apechild for sending this my way.

This is so sad. I got an email today to tell me someone had made a journal entry. Why sad? I see when I sent it off I made a comment saying the birthday was on the day I started my new job. 3 years (almost) on... due to the wonderful government we have, the office has been closed and my last day at that job was today. Talk about coincidences.

This is going into Kev's Random Bookbox.

Taken out of "Kev's Random Bookbox"....thanks!

This book is going travelling!

I'm planning to take this book to the USA soon with the intention of reading & then releasing it somewhere in New England. Will update this JE with a review & release details on my return..

In the meantime.....if its currently safe with you, please let us know where you found it!
Thank you :o)


Review:
A nice, quick read which was a little predictable but thats possibly because it would seem I've read it before!

Left on a bench near the fountain




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