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Winter's end
An old family house has a mysterious effect on a group of teenagers staying there.
- GenresFiction
183 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1978
About the author
Catherine Storr
165 books30 followersAuthor Catherine Storr was educated at St. Paul's Girls' School and went on to study English at Newnham College, Cambridge. She then went to medical school and worked part-time as a Senior Medical Officer in the Department of Psychological Medicine of the Middlesex Hospital from 1950 to 1963.
Her first book was published in 1940, but was not successful. It was not until the 1950s that her books became popular. She wrote mostly children's books as well as books for adults, plays, short stories, and adapted one of her novels into an opera libretto. She published more than 30 children's books, but is best known for Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf and Marianne Dreams, which was made into a television series and a film.
Her first book was published in 1940, but was not successful. It was not until the 1950s that her books became popular. She wrote mostly children's books as well as books for adults, plays, short stories, and adapted one of her novels into an opera libretto. She published more than 30 children's books, but is best known for Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf and Marianne Dreams, which was made into a television series and a film.
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April 17, 2020
So disappointing. I love Marianne Dreams, the first book by Catherine Storr I ever read, but every other book by her has disappointed me, this one most of all. For one thing, it is not a children's book.
Winter's End is a totally miserable book about a cold, miserable, joy-killing, beautiful house in the country in late winter in England and the university kids who go to stay there over break (one of them has just inherited it). Every body is cold all the time, their libido is chilled, and the kid who inherits it starts going mad (the house is warped, in a slightly, but not explicitly, supernatural way). Chilly misery all round. Also I didn't like the intellectual dimness of the main girl. Why is she even at university? A good book to read if you are tired of warm sun and innocent happiness and love.
Winter's End is a totally miserable book about a cold, miserable, joy-killing, beautiful house in the country in late winter in England and the university kids who go to stay there over break (one of them has just inherited it). Every body is cold all the time, their libido is chilled, and the kid who inherits it starts going mad (the house is warped, in a slightly, but not explicitly, supernatural way). Chilly misery all round. Also I didn't like the intellectual dimness of the main girl. Why is she even at university? A good book to read if you are tired of warm sun and innocent happiness and love.
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