The Bird in the Chimney

by Dorothy Eden

Book Overview

Fanny was an orphan who'd been brought up at Darkwater. She in turn was now looking after two relatives, Marcus and Olivia. She'd previously dreamed of going to work in the Crimea but now she became... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0340003200
• ISBN13: 9780340003206
• Release Date: December 1979
• Publisher: Coronet Books
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Darkwater runs deep in this off-beat Gothic tale

If the Gothic romance novel is your shadowy cup of tea, you can't do better than Darkwater, by Dorothy Eden. A lonely house on a moor. Orphans. Inheritances. Ghosts. Murder. Obstacles to love. Madness. All present and accounted for. Eden's imagination when walking on the dark side (Great-Aunt Arabella's bedtime stories, for example) almost rivals Angela Carter's for sheer nastiness at times; yet she is also a page-turning storyteller in the conventional sense. It's this odd mixture that sets her apart from other romance authors. There's a Dickensian cast of characters: Francesca Davenport, the novel's heroine; mad cousin George; two orphans from China; Amelia, the spoiled daughter; the repulsive Hamish Barlow; the handsome yet questionable Adam Marsh. All set against the backdrop of Darkwater, the Elizabethan manor house with the black lake in the middle of a foggy moor. What more atmosphere is needed?