Author:Nicola Cornick
Publisher; Graydon House
Date of publication: March 2019
London, 1765
Lady Isabella Gerard, a respectable member of Georgian
society, orders her maid to take her new golden gown and destroy it, its
shimmering beauty tainted by the actions of her brutal husband the night
before.
Three months later, Lord Gerard stands at the shoreline of
the lake, looking down at a woman wearing the golden gown. As the body slowly
rolls over to reveal her face, it’s clear this was not his intended victim…
250 Years Later…
When a gown she stole from a historic home as a child is
mysteriously returned to Fenella Brightwell, it begins to possess her in
exactly the same way that it did as a girl. Soon the fragile new life Fen has
created for herself away from her abusive ex-husband is threatened at its
foundations by the gown’s power over her until she can’t tell what is real and
what is imaginary.
As Fen uncovers more about the gown and Isabella’s story,
she begins to see the parallels with her own life. When each piece of history
is revealed, the gown—and its past—seems to possess her more and more,
culminating in a dramatic revelation set to destroy her sanity.
The Woman in the Lake is a dual timeline story. One timeline follows Isabella who is in an abusive marriage in the late 1700 London. The other follows Fenella who has recently left an abusive marriage and is trying to put her life back together. What ties them together is a dress that might be cursed.
I thought this was an OK read. I wasn't a fan of the dual time lines because I found it hard to connect the two stories with each other. They did kind of make a connection in the end, but it took too long to get there. For me, the story would have stood up well with just the 1765 storyline. I liked that mystery more. In the present day timeline, I would have liked the "supernatural" aspect of the dress to be explored more than it was. I think it's one you will have to try out for yourself. It's not a bad read, it just wasn't for me.
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About Nicola Cornick
USA Today bestselling author Nicola Cornick has written over
40 historical romances and now writes Gothic time slip for HQ and Graydon
House.
Nicola’s writing is inspired by her love of history and was
fostered by a wonderful history teacher and by her grandmother, whose
collection of historical romantic fiction fed Nicola’s addiction from an early
age. She studied in London and Oxford and works as a guide and historian in a
17th century house as well as acting as a historical adviser for TV and radio.
Publisher’s Weekly have described her as a rising star and her books have been
nominated for the Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award and for the Romance
Writers of America RITA Awards.
Nicola lives near Oxford with her husband and dog. When she
isn’t writing she enjoys long walks in the countryside, singing in a choir and
volunteering as a puppy walker for Guide Dogs.
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1 comment:
I think this one sounds really interesting with the gothic spin to it, I can see people really enjoying this. Thanks for being on the tour.
Sara @ TLC Book Tours
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