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Currawong Manor

Josephine Pennicott

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May 08, 2014 Shelleyrae at Book'd Out rated it really liked it

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An atmospheric novel of mystery, drama and tragedy, Currawong Manor has a similar tone and premise to author Josephine Pennicott's previous novel, Poet's Cottage.

Photographer Elizabeth Thorrington has always been eager to learn more about her grandfather, Rupert Partridge, a well known, controversial artist who mysteriously vanished in 1945 on the same day his beloved daughter, Shalimar, and wife Doris, met their tragic deaths. Invited by the current owners of Currawong Manor, the Partridge's f ...more

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Sep 09, 2019 Jyv rated it it was ok

Shelves: fiction, mystery, australia, australian-author

I tossed up between giving this a 1 or a 2. In the end I settled for a 2 as I actually finished it. I didn't really take to it and it only annoyed me more and more as it continued (and it wouldn't stop, continuing way past when it should have finished - it became more a biography of Ginger than the solving of a mystery).
For a start why would anyone invite an author and photographer to a house in the middle of winter? Presumably just to make it more "gothic" and forboding, but totally illogical. ...more

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