![]() ![]() ![]() Jo's depression is a part of her and it seems she will never be rid of it and now her memories of her husband are suspect since she thinks he lied about or omitted so much. There is the feeling that nothing good lurks in the future, while so many bad things have already happened. The story is gloomy, with a sense of foreboding. Jo has no one she can talk to and no where to go, especially when her mother's welfare depends on Jo's salary. And it's obvious that the aunt wants Jo to marry her war injured son when Jo never wants to marry again. ![]() She also starts seeing and hearing things that seem to be related to the dead. It's there that Jo finds out things that Alex never told her and she begins to have doubts about how honest he'd been with her throughout the time she knew him. It's England 1921, Jo is supporting her mentally ill mother in a care home and she's running out of money so she takes a job as an assistant with her husband's wealthy, condescending, demanding aunt.Īfter a three month stint of travel with the aunt, who increases her wealth buying and selling art, Jo settles with her aunt in the recently reopened family mansion. In this story we meet Jo Manders, mourning her loss of her husband who parachuted over Germany and was never seen again. ![]() I like the way she mixes the supernatural with everyday life in such a way that I'm not always sure what is going on and if it's not really just a fluke of something natural. JamesĪfter enjoying this author's last two books I'm going back and listening to her older books. ![]()
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