Have you ever read Robert Nathan? He wrote one of my all time favorite books - A Portrait of Jenny - which was also a wonderful movie starting Joseph Cotton and Jennifer Jones.
I have read as many of Natha's books as I can get since many of them are out of print. But recently I heard, much to my delight, they are all going to be available in ebooks. More about that when it happens.
What I love about Nathan is how real his fantasy's are. How utterly believable.
A Place of Secrets by Rachel Hore reminds me of Nathan's work - magical but utterly believable.
The kind of book you sink into and get lost in. A gothic fantasy. Suspenseful. Magical and heart warming plus a lot of terrific history and sense of place.
The synopsis reads: The night before it all begins, Jude has the same nightmare that haunted her as a child: running through a dark forest, crying for her mother. Now her six-year-old niece, Summer, is having the same dream, and Jude is frightened for her.
A successful auctioneer, Jude is
struggling to come to terms with the death of her husband. When she's
asked to value a collection of scientific instruments and manuscripts
belonging to Anthony Wickham, a lonely eighteenth-century astronomer,
she leaps at the chance to escape London for the untamed beauty of
Norfolk, where she grew up. As Jude untangles Wickham's tragic story,
she discovers threatening links to the present
(For those of you new to the blog. Hand selling is what booksellers do. I don't have a store. Just this blog. So when I love a book I hand yell it:)
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