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December 2011 Book of the Month.
One of our Great Reads you may have missed in 2011.
A mix of the occult, murder and love – dual time; 1911 and 2010. It is sparked off by the discovery of the body of a First World War soldier in France who has two letters on him. It is these letters that give us the bulk of this hypnotic tale. Good old-fashioned storytelling at its best.
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Synopsis
The Unseen by Katherine Webb
England, 1911. When a free-spirited young woman arrives in a sleepy Berkshire village to work as a maid in the household of The Reverend and Mrs Canning, she sets in motion a chain of events which changes all their lives. For Cat has a past - a past her new mistress is willing to overlook, but will never understand ...This is not all Hester Canning has to cope with. When her husband invites a young man into their home, he brings with him a dangerous obsession...During the long, oppressive summer, the rectory becomes charged with ambition, love and jealousy - with the most devastating consequences.
Reviews
Really, truly outstanding CHICKLITREVIEWS BLOG 20111201 An atmospheric page-turner -- Fanny Blake WOMAN & HOME 20120101 This is an engrossing and totally convincing piece of storytelling, a perfect curl-up-by-the-fire read. -- John Koski YOU MAGAZINE 20111211 'A mixture of the occult, mysterious beings in the water meadows, love, ambition, jealousy - and murder - make this an exciting, engrossing book. OXFORD TIMES 20111222
About the Author
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Katherine Webb was born in Kent in 1977 and grew up in rural Hampshire. She was educated at a local comprehensive school and sixth form college, before reading History at Durham University. A childhood fascination with ruined castles and the secrets of the past has carried forward into her fiction, which incorporates historical story lines and explores how past events can reverberate in the present.
Since graduating from Durham in 1998, Katherine has had various day jobs – from kiln operator in a pottery, to waitress, librarian and seller of fairy costumes. In recent years she has worked in service as a housekeeper for high status families; in formal households where age-old structures of class behaviour are alive and well, uniforms are worn and staff are expected to be both invisible and omnipresent; and (currently) in pleasantly relaxed households with more up-to-date attitudes.
After a nomadic period in her twenties, having lived in London and Venice, Katherine has now settled in a cottage in the countryside near Newbury, Berkshire. DIY is more of a necessity than a hobby, and her other interests include cookery, running and horse riding.
The Legacy is Katherine’s seventh completed novel, and the first to be published. Unusually, The Legacy came to Orion’s notice, not through a literary agent, (Katherine didn’t have one at the time) but through the peer-review website, YouWriteOn.com. The Legacy won YouWriteOn.com’s Novel of the Year Award 2009, garnering huge support from other aspiring writers on the site. Orion has signed Katherine on a two book deal, launching The Legacy as a major debut in 2010.
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Historical Fiction
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