By Jennifer McMahon (336 pages)
Published by Doubleday
Bookish rating: 4
This is a satisfying read. Set in current day and in the very early 1900s in Vermont. A literary ghost story, with diaries, mysteries, and heartbreakingly too-strong bonds of parental love . . . oh, and death. Because it's a ghost story.
McMahon's novel is absorbing, escapist, not TOO spooky yet still adequately haunting-esque. Characters, particularly the historical Sara, who gives us some first-person narrative via diary, have depth and voice. Mysteries abound.
But really? I can't write too much that wouldn't undermine the joy of reading the story, so just go read this wintry ghost story already.
Recommended.
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