The book might seem long at first glance but once you begin reading you’re so lost in the story that you don’t notice. You aren’t pushed from one scene to the next, instead your walk an intricate path along with the characters. Unlike so many other books I’ve read in the genre of late the story takes time.
The spirit of Aphra Rushes – intent on finishing what she began, four centuries ago.Ģ00words (or less) review: Originally I wasn’t sure why Long Lankin needed a sequel but Lindsay Barraclough made it work and brilliantly so. Until Cora’s father arranges for some restoration work to take place at Guerdon Hall, and it seems that something hidden there long ago has been disturbed. It is a cold, bitter winter, and the horrifying events of that sweltering summer in 1958 seem long past. Ostracized and tormented, he is the only person willing to help her.įour years have passed since the death of Ida Guerdon, and Cora is back in Bryers Guerdon in the manor house her aunt left to her. Until she reaches Bryers Guerdon and meets the man they call Long Lankin – the leper. Years of begging and stealing make her strong, but they also make her bitter, for she is shunned and feared by everyone she meets. When a violent fire destroys their home, Aphra is left to fend for herself. Little Aphra’s gifts in the dark craft are clear, even as an infant, but soon even her guardians begin to fear her. Found abandoned as a baby among the reeds and rushes, the two outcast witches who raise her in their isolated cottage are never sure if she was born, or just pushed up through the foul, black mud for them to find.
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