![]() ![]() Secrets and the sins of the past are also present, as is a feeling of otherworldly goings on. ![]() I enjoyed the overall setting of Wake's End, including the members of the household and the superstitions of the local people about the fen. ![]() Gothic tension takes time, and Paver does an excellent job of allowing the reader to see every single stage of Edmund's decline. I can understand why some readers will find Wakenhyrst a slow read, but that's what builds the tension. Maud discovers her authoritarian father's diary and we interpret the content along with Maud as she tries to figure out what's happening. A medieval Doom painting is discovered in the nearby Church and Edmund is affected by the artist's depiction of the Last Judgement. The reader is taken back in time to Maud's childhood and her overbearing father's increasing obsession with 15th Century mystic Alice Pyett. Maud's story is closely connected with that of her father, historian Edmund Stearne and the mystery of the crime he committed in 1913. The ancient manor house of Wake's End near the hamlet of Wakenhyrst has been Maud's home for the past 50 years where she's lived as a recluse. Wakenhyrst by Michelle Paver is a gothic mystery set in a fen in Edwardian Suffolk surrounded by folklore, superstition and legends. ![]()
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