"The Quickening" by Francis Lynde. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. War-time France – intrigue, deception and divided loyalties. However, although delighted at her forthcoming baby, she is feeling hemmed in and frustrated. Mysterious goings on make her wonder if the dead are still around and what secrets the hall's inhabitants are hiding. Louisa, newly (and unhappily) married and in her third trimester, needs the money, but just how much is Louisa’s destiny caught up within the crumbling walls of the mansion and its unhappy inhabitants? This book is my favourite kind of historical novel. The problem is the topic, the Quickening, a made up term for coming changes that Art coined some years before the book was written. I devoured this book in a single day. Don't start reading MYRREN'S GIFT in the evening if you have to get up early the next morning!' Rhiannon Ward may be a new name but you might recognise Sarah Ward, writer of a series of accomplished police procedurals set in modern day Derbyshire. However, although delighted at her forthcoming baby, she is feeling hemmed in and frustrated. A heavily pregnant photographer is commissioned to work in a creepy manor, apparently inimical to children. “The world of the common man is about to unravel, like never before. It marks a bit of a departure from the DC Childs series but fear not, there is still a crime to solve! Haunted by her own losses in the First World War and flu pandemic, Louisa is susceptible to the possible ghosts who hover around the resident medium and the Clewer family. Review: The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds Andrew Motion applauds a vividly sympathetic exploration of poetry, madness and identity Its very gothic feel just heightened my anticipation and enjoyment. pocket, 2006. Welcome to BookReleaseDates.com, the ultimate site for book release dates and new novel releases.We bring you 1000s of the latest upcoming book releases so you have more time to plan your next good read! Praise for THE QUICKENING: 'It's a "just one more chapter" sort of book. This was... alright. It discusses the power of the ancient Warrior-Sages, and it teaches you etheric (Life Force) and psychological techniques for consolidating your energy. Husband Edwin is very different from her first husband and is resistant to her working as a photographer . This was a wonderful Gothic read. The book is based on the historical backdrop of a mental asylum run by Matthew Allen at High Beach in late 1830s and 1840s which had English poet John Clare admitted therein. I was sent a copy of this book by the publisher, originally for a blog tour but it didn’t arrive in time. Newly re-married to a war-traumatised husband and seven months pregnant, Louisa is asked by her… The Quickening by Rhiannon Ward is a Gothic mystery with a ghostly twist, Set in the aftermath of World War 1 , the book follows a photographer Louisa Drew to a crumbling mansion in the English countryside where she has been commissioned to photograph the contents for an auction, the proceeds of which will fund the straitened family's planned move to India. Set over dual timelines at the end of the 19th Century and following WW1, this is a historical novel that reminded me of books written at the time. If you’re not, you know what to do. Is it perfect? Husband Edwin is very different from her first husband and is resistant to her working as a photographer . Louisa Drew lost her husband in the First World War and her twin sons in the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918. It's 1925 and pregnant photographer Louisa Drew is commissioned to take the images for an auction sale catalogue relating to Clewer Hall near Brighton. The protagonist is pregnant, having lost her first two children, the folks in the house she is doing some work for lost a bunch of kids, and one may be haunting the place. The Quickening is such a fully realized, sensually vivid, psychologically intelligent novel that it's hard to believe it is a debut, but it is and a sparkling one." I'm a sucker for Gothics, but this one didn't really work for me. Painfully told, it records the lives and friendship of two farm women in early 1900s Iowa. What an exceptional debut this book is.” —Ron Rash, author of Serena Under the Mediterranean sun, a shadowy world where ambivalence and compromise test loyalties to breaking point.Alec Ross is an innocent born at the outset of the twentieth century. 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