Book description
Young Australian cellist Maisie Fielding is bored with her career and
her overpowering, manipulative musical family. Faking a wrist injury,
she takes time off to return to England, her mother's home country, to
search for her own roots and to find out more about her grandmother, a
'white witch' who settled in a bleak village on the North Yorkshire
coast. Maisie's mother is set against her going, and refuses to tell her
daughter anything about the woman, other than that - even dead - she is
dangerous. On her arrival in Solgreve, she receives a hostile welcome
from her new neighbours and begins to find clues to her grandmother's
mysterious death. Amongst the clutter in her grandmother's house is a
diary written by a young French woman who eloped with a penniless
English poet and settled in the village. Through this diary, Maisie
discovers the existence of an unnatural presence which still preys on
the lives of the people of the village, past and present. This book will
appeal to the huge Anne Rice market: a gothic, romantic horror story
with a credible, strong and extremely likeable heroine at the heart of
it, backed by atmospheric descriptions of Yorkshire and a convincing
setting in the music world.
