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A sinister Gothic tale in the tradition of The Woman in Black and The Fall of the House of Usher



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‘Plentiful mysteries and good old-fashioned shocks punctuate this pacy and satisfyingly twisting coda’ DAILY MAIL

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'Harding rings enough ingenious changes on James's study of perversity to produce his own full-blown Gothic horror tale' INDEPENDENT

‘An elegant literary exercise worked out with the strictness of a fugue: imagine Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw reworked by Edgar Allan Poe’ THE TIMES

The Girl Who Couldnt Read

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    A Paperback by John Harding

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      Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 4/9/2015 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780007324255, 978-0007324255
      ISBN10: 0007324251

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A sinister Gothic tale in the tradition of The Woman in Black and The Fall of the House of Usher



      Trade Review

      ‘Plentiful mysteries and good old-fashioned shocks punctuate this pacy and satisfyingly twisting coda’ DAILY MAIL

      Praise for Florence and Giles:
      ‘A darkly glamorous tour de force’
      DAILY MAIL

      'Harding rings enough ingenious changes on James's study of perversity to produce his own full-blown Gothic horror tale' INDEPENDENT

      ‘An elegant literary exercise worked out with the strictness of a fugue: imagine Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw reworked by Edgar Allan Poe’ THE TIMES

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