This is the story of Nina, killed by a childhood friend and trapped as a ghost in the house where she grew up. As the police come and go, and her body rots in its unfound hiding place, she begins to relived her own live, becoming the mysterious figure that haunted her as a child. From her lonely childhood, to the meeting with George and Janie, the arrival of her step-brother, to the lofty heights of stardom and eventually back to her own death.

A brilliantly written novel, althiugh not a great deal actually happens. You end up drifting from one scene to another, seeing both through Nina's ghostly eyes and her real ones. George and Gregory's battlefield scenes are quite harrowing and contrast really well with the images from her life, although the quick changes between the two did annoy me a bit. Still, I really enjoyed this and may well track down some more books by this author.

Hope you like it too.

RELEASE NOTES:

RABCK'd to pennywhistler

Thanks so much for this! I read a brilliant review of this last year and immediately put it on my wish list. I am looking forward to reading it. Thanks again.

I tried to read this three times and just couldn''t get into it. I am sending it on to Ladkyis who won it in a bookswap. I hope you enjoy it more than me!

received today as part of the bookswap, not sure if I will like it but my husband probably will

Thanks Ladkyis for putting this in the VBB, sounds an interesting kind of book.

I must admit to skimming through this book as I found the story very slow moving.
I will be releasing this book on Sat. at the Wendover meet.

RELEASE NOTES:

Acquired at Wendover Woods when meeting some other bookcrossers at the cafe on Saturday 13th.

Placed in the Sparkley bookbox. Enjoy!

Taken from the Sparkley Book Box, being added to my massive TBR mountain!

I just couldn't get into this, I found it too slow, sorry.

This is being sent to Nell-Lu as part of the SFF VBB.
Hope you have more luck with it than I did.

This just arrived -- many thanks, yorkshire-lass.

I enjoyed this story of a life, childhood friendships, complicated sibling relationships and coping -- or not -- with the horrors of adult life in the first half of the twentieth century.

I have to confess, the first few chapters were a little dissonant as I read them expecting this to be a fantasy novel, not literary fiction! However, Shade came as a lovely surprise.

I'll find a way to BookCross this soon -- possible through a wild release at Hogmanay here in Edinburgh...

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