Sarah's Library

27/05 - I think Nell was a bit of an ungrateful fool to pull away from her sisters and father and fiancee (I understand that even less) just because she found out she was "adopted".  That doesn't mean that anyone loved her any less, in fact you might say that her parents loved her more as they chose to keep her (not quite the same as giving birth to a baby, you have to love it as that's your baby, you don't get to pick and choose and say "no I don't like that one, send it back") - her father could have handed her over to whoever wrote the letter looking for her.  Her sisters knew her better and for longer than they would have known each other, especially the oldest as Nell would have been the only other sibling she had for a few years.  So while I am really enjoying the writing and the other 95% of the story so far, that withdrawal from the people who loved her does bug me.  To be continued...

1/06 - Still loving this.  The intrigue of the mystery has overshadowed my irritation at Nell's earlier behaviour.  Until coming back to this review to update it I had almost forgotten that that was how the story began.  All Morton's books are atmospheric and I feel like I'm actually there and I can totally see the locations, but this particular location seems to call to me more than her others.  I want to live at that cottage.  I've always been a loner and an isolated cottage at the top of a steep hill sounds like a good place to hide away with a book and a crackling fire, or in the garden if it's not too cold or wet.  No more door-to-door energy salesman, no more red cross volunteers and no more noisy or nosy neighbours peeking over your fence or through your windows.  It sounds like the perfect place to become the neighbourhood 'crazy cat lady', except I'd have lots of dogs instead of cats.