My Soul to Keep: 9a Novel

by Judith Hawkes

Book Overview

After the collapse of her marriage, a woman returns to the rural mountains of Tennessee with her child. But when her own shadowy childhood memories take on a new life for her young son and eerily compels him toward destruction, she must pierce the mysterious veil of her past and uncover the terrifying answers before it is too late.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525939571
• ISBN13: 9780525939573
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Dutton Books
• Length: 323 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

entertaining, but not her best

I found this novel to be entertaining and creepy, but not as beautifully and subtly written as Julian's House and The Heart Of A Witch. Still, it's suspenseful and compelling, and a good, solid read.

Sleepless nights here

my favorite of her wonderful books - the characters are sympathetic and the suspense is honestly creepy

A Suspense Story That Seems Real

Fashion photographer Nan Lucas inherits a farm in rural Tennessee from her grandmother. Nan decides to spend the summer at the farm with her eight-year-old son Stephen. A lazy holiday will provide a needed break from the fast pace of New York and the pain of her crumbling marriage. The only trouble is that the visit revives long dormant memories of a terrible drowning accident twenty years ago. Hawkes has written a suspense story that seems real and the characters are interesting.

Good read, but disappointing after Julian's House

I was really looking forward to reading this book; Hawkes' other novel, Julian's House, capivated me. Unfortunatley, I feel this book doesn't quite reach the same level as Julian's House. My Soul to Keep isn't as creepy, the characters aren't as developed, the plot isn't as convincing. That being said, however, this novel is still a good read. The last half of it is much better than the first, and there are more than a few glimpes of the style that made Julian's House such an utterly believable,atmospheric story. I will still be on the lookout for a third Hawkes' novel, and I hope it will be closer in spirit to Julian's House than to My Soul to Keep