The delicious brooding quality of Susan Meissner’s A Sound Among the Trees reminds me of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca. Marielle, like the narrator of Rebecca, is a new bride who comes to live in her predecessor’s ancient family home. And like Maximilian de Winter, Marielle’s husband Carson seems oblivious to the emotional toll she pays [...]
Published on August 06, 2012 05:45