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Florence and Giles

3.59 ( 401 Ratings by Goodreads)
Florence and Giles

Florence and Giles

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3.59 (401 Ratings by Goodreads)
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A sinister Gothic tale in the tradition of The Woman in Black and The Fall of the House of Usher 1891. In a remote and crumbling New England mansion, 12-year-old orphan Florence is neglected by her guardian uncle and banned from reading. Left to her own devices she devours books in secret and talks to herself - and narrates this, her story - in a unique language of her own invention. By night, she sleepwalks the corridors like one of the old house's many ghosts and is troubled by a recurrent dream in which a mysterious woman appears to threaten her younger brother Giles. Sometimes Florence doesn't sleepwalk at all, but simply pretends to so she can roam at will and search the house for clues to her own baffling past. After the sudden violent death of the children's first governess, a second teacher, Miss Taylor, arrives, and immediately strange phenomena begin to occur. Florence becomes convinced that the new governess is a vengeful and malevolent spirit who means to do Giles harm. Against this powerful supernatural enemy, and without any adult to whom she can turn for help, Florence must use all her intelligence and ingenuity to both protect her little brother and preserve her private world. Inspired by and in the tradition of Henry James' s The Turn of the Screw, Florence & Giles is a gripping gothic page-turner told in a startlingly different and wonderfully captivating narrative voice.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780007315031
ISBN10 0007315031
Number Of Pages 272
Item Weight 439 g
Product Dimensions 140 x 32 x 218 mm
Publisher / Reseller Blue Door
Format hardback
Edition First Edition; 1st printing.
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You don't need to know The Turn of the Screw to enjoy it. Real atmosphere is increasingly rare in novels and here it is in spades; mysterious towers, faces in mirrors, shadowy corridors and long black dresses. Like James, Harding keeps his dramatis personae tightly confined and ramps up the suspense and mystery until even the most careful reader wonders what's going on and what isn't. Your Twilight-reading teen will love it too. A darkly glamorous tour de force. Wendy Holden, DAILY MAIL Florence and Giles is an elegant literary exercise worked out with the strictness of a fugue: imagine Henry James's The Turn of the Screw reworked by Edgar Allan Poe!Nothing prepares you for the chillingly ruthless but inevitable finale. THE TIMES Brilliantly creepy DAILY MIRROR An intriguing read GRAZIA A good, clever, modern take on old-style American gothic; a creepy haunted house tale in which the living are just as eerie as any real or imagined ghouls. NEW ZEALAND HERALD a scarily good story, in an arrestingly unusual narrative voice. THE OXFORD TIMES

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Author's Bio

John Harding was born near Ely. He is the author of the bestselling What We Did On Our Holiday, made into an ITV drama starring Shane Ritchie and Roger Lloyd Pack. He is a book reviewer for the Daily Mail and lives in London.

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