false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173612924m/308621.jpg 308621 9 As soon as Kerstin Kvist arrives at remote, ivy-covered Lydstep Old Hall in Essex, she feels like a character in a gothic novel. A young nurse fresh out of school, Kerstin has been hired for a position with the Cosway family, residents of the Hall for generations. She is soon introduced to her &#8220;charge,&#8221; John Cosway, a thirty-nine-year-old man whose strange behavior is vaguely explained by his mother and sisters as part of the madness that runs in the family. <br><br>Weeks go by at Lydstep with little to mark the passage of time beyond John&#8217;s daily walks and the amusingly provincial happenings that engross the Cosway women, and Kerstin occupies her many free hours at the Hall reading or making entries into her diary. Meanwhile, bitter wrangling among Julia Cosway and her four grown daughters becomes increasingly evident. But this is just the most obvious of the tensions that charge the old remote estate, with its sealed rooms full of mystery. Soon Kerstin will find herself in possession of knowledge she will wish she&#8217;d never attained, secrets that will propel the occupants of Lydstep Old Hall headlong into sexual obsession, betrayal, and, finally, murder.<br><br><br>Also available in a Random House Large Print edition and as an eBook 2728453 2006 The Minotaur: A Novel total:293|5:41|4:115|3:98|2:33|1:6| 293 1031 412 53 5 1 false false Wed Jun 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 19 09:54:40 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 14 08:34:12 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Wed Mar 11 14:21:53 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 11 14:21:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Apr 24 15:49:03 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 24 15:55:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 09:45:32 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 09:55:35 -0700 2009 The Minotaur is a modern Gothic novel -- set in the late sixties, with all the trappings of normality except within the confines of the novel's main setting, Lydstep Old Hall.

Vine sets up a deliciously creepy setting in Lydstep, populated by the not-necessarily-creepy-but-certainly-str...more...]]> 4 2 false false Fri May 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 06 09:42:49 -0700 2008 Wed May 21 11:04:48 -0700 2008 The Minotaur doesn't disappoint. In addition to a compelling story, Vine does a wonderful job with atmosphere, conveying a very real sense of "something just ain't right...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Feb 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 10:02:02 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 03 09:56:13 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Sep 05 08:38:10 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 08:42:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Nov 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Sep 12 12:41:13 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 01 23:39:54 -0800 2009 This book was very difficult to read to say the least. The book was about a woman getting a job with a family to look after their thirty-year old son who was diagnosed with childhood-onset schizophrenia. Anyone that knows anything about autism can immediately identify the traits of aut...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 08 14:30:07 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 08 15:20:23 -0700 2008 2 x
Writing as ...more...]]> 4 1 false true Sat Sep 20 14:03:03 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 20 14:04:48 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Feb 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Sep 10 10:47:20 -0700 2008 Wed Feb 18 16:17:15 -0800 2009 The Minotaur by Barbara Vine could best be described as a Gothic-mystery / psychological thriller. Despite a lack of experience in psychiatric nursing, Kerstin Kvist, decided to take a position with the Cosway family at the imposing Virginia creeper-entwined Lydstep Old Hall. John Cosway, her new "...more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Jan 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Sep 04 02:33:56 -0700 2008 Wed Jan 21 03:28:18 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 true false Sun Aug 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 17 15:21:22 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 17 15:55:56 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 27 04:42:07 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 27 04:42:53 -0700 2008
Kerstin Kvist is a young woman who is from Sweden. She has just finished nursing school and wants to stay in England to determine whether or not a relations...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sun Dec 09 14:54:05 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 09 14:56:34 -0800 2007
Young Kerstin (Shashtin) Kvist comes to England to work as a nurse to John Cosway. His family -- mother and three spinster sisters -- all insist he's mad, but Kerstin doubts that schizophrenia is a genuine diagnosis. In fact, Kerstin thinks ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 21 12:54:39 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 10:18:50 -0800 2008 The book is told from the perspective of Kerstin, a Swedish woman who goes to Lydstep Old Hall, a large estate in England, to help care for John, a schizophrenic man.
The whole family is dysfunctional, the 4 sisters and their mother. All awful p...more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Jul 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 17:06:04 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 10:42:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Feb 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Sep 25 08:02:37 -0700 2007 Tue Feb 26 05:34:07 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 03 08:24:38 -0700 2009 Sun May 03 08:24:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 03 16:28:57 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 03 16:36:17 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=308621