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This book topped the chart for creepiness, for sure. The main character is a small English village which is slowly falling into the ocean due to erosion or perhaps the literal weight of its history. In alternate chapters, the reader visits the village in 1798 through the diary of its rector whose spiritual strugges are becoming serious and again in modern times when two teens girls go exploring its darker corners. And this village has plenty of corners where its dark history isn't hidden very de
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I was a bit disappointed with this story, mainly with the quirky characters and the peculiar ending. I did, however, very much like the setting of the story, an English seaside village that is slowly disappearing into the sea as the cliffs it is perched upon crumble away. The description of the place, and the idea of living in a place that you knew is doomed, were fascinating. Sedgwick reveals in a note at the end that he based it on a real village, Dunwich, which now I'd love to see. The story
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Rebecca and her father have just moved from London to the small town of Winterfold for the summer. There Rebecca meets Ferelith, a goth girl who tells Rebecca the morbid history of the old building that is slowly crumbling into the sea. Hundreds of years ago, the local pastor and a foreign doctor started an experiment to determine what came after death. Ferelith believes she can use Rebecca for her own little experiment.
I feel like the cover of this book is going to turn a lot of people off from ...more
I feel like the cover of this book is going to turn a lot of people off from ...more
Aug 17, 2011
Katie
marked it as to-read
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Rachel Piper
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Michelle
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