House of Shadows

by Susan Bowden

Photographer Vivien Shaw heads to Barbados with novelist David Moreton to collaborate on a book about the island--although her parents urge her not to go. When they arrive, Vivien moves into a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451208331
• ISBN13: 9780451208330
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Signet Book
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Suspenseful, romantic, surprising - perfect combination!

Bowden provides just the right amount of all of the elements that make a book a good one. Conflict, suspense, plot twists, and realistic characters all make this novel a great read, one that you won't want to put down!

delightful tour of Barbados

During a successful showing of her photographs depicting her home country of Canada, Wesley Marshall of Barbados Consulate offers artist Vivien Shaw a job. He wants her to come to his island home to collaborate with a renowned local writer, whose name he refuses to provide at this time, on a book about the island. Vivien says she does not do coffee table books and needs to know who is writing the captions before agreeing. Wesley persuades her to come to Barbados, expenses paid for, to make her final decision.In Barbados at a party thrown by Wesley and his wife, Vivien meets the writer David Moreton who dismisses her for being too white to write about Barbados. While being driven around by a local hired by Wesley, Vivian sees Peverill House. She forces her reluctant driver to stop and decides to stay there for now. Soon, David escorts Vivien around the island and the two surprisingly hit it off. However, Vivien will learn the hard way why no one wanted her to stay at Peverill House where tragedy impacted her family years ago though she never knew she had some Barbados roots.HOUSE OF SHADOWS provides the audience a delightful tour of Barbados rarely seen in a novel, a guidebook, or by a tourist. The conflict between the two lead artists is filled with tension from their attraction as much as from their disagreement over the book. The suspense subplot adds well written conflict with a twist, but takes away from the prime theme of the beauty of the island seen through two apparently differing sets of eyes.Harriet Klausner