The resurrectionists

by Kim Wilkins

Paper Book, 2000

Status

Available

Call number

823.914

Publication

London : Gollancz, 2001, c2000.

Description

Young Australian cellist Maisie Fielding is bored with her career and her overpowering, manipulative musical family. Faking a wrist injury, she takes time off to return to England, her mother's home country, to search for her own roots and to find out more about her grandmother, a 'white witch' who settled in a bleak village on the North Yorkshire coast. Maisie's mother is set against her going and refuses to tell her daughter anything about the woman, other than that, even dead, she is dangerous. On her arrival in Solgreve, she receives a hostile welcome from her new neighbours and begins to find clues to her grandmother's mysterious death. Amongst the clutter in her grandmother's house is a diary written by a young French woman who eloped with a penniless English poet and settled in the village. Through this diary, Maisie discovers the existence of an unnatural presence which still preys on the lives of the people of the village, past and present.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member salimbol
[3 and 1/2 stars]
A quick, enjoyable read in time for Hallowe'en. I wasn't ever particularly scared, mind you, but nevertheless I was caught up in the narrative, and it ticked all the usual spooky boxes in a competent, workmanlike manner. (I do feel a little dissatisfied, however, because it wasn't
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anywhere near as good as her 'The Autumn Castle', and I must have been expecting something at that level.)
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Awards

Aurealis Award (Winner — 2000)

Language

Original publication date

2000

Physical description

682 p.; 18 inches

ISBN

1857987934 / 9781857987935
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