Julia Beckett believes in destiny. And so she feels she is meant to own the beautiful sixteenth-century farmhouse known as Greywethers. Before long she begins "sliding" -- experiencing the past through the eyes of Greywethers' former resident, a young woman named Mariana.
is a bit of a dabbler, and her stories refuse to be confined to one pat and easy category. She does write historicals, with a love of and respect for what has come before. Yet often in her writing, the past will intrude upon the present. By anchoring her stories in our time, the events of the past take on real resonance for the reader.
Kearsley returned to this familiar territory with her most recent novel, The Winter Sea, where she explored the idea of genetic memory. It is also interesting that many of Kearlsey's protagonists have some tie to the arts. Julia Beckett, like Carrie McClelland of The Winter Sea, is an author. Both novels bookend an enjoyable body of work.
When it was first written, Mariana, won the Catherine Cookson Fiction Prize and jumpstarted the fledgling author's career. Now, years later, publisher Allison & Busby are bringing Mariana back into print. If there is any justice, this new edition will bring a whole new bundle of readers to a very deserving novel.
See Also:
The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley
An Interview with Susanna Kearsley
Every Secret Thing by Emma Cole
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