Elizabeth Edmondson
Paperback | Pages: 456 pages Rating: 3.97 | 1635 Users | 115 Reviews
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| Title | : | A Casa do Lago |
| Author | : | Elizabeth Edmondson |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 456 pages |
| Published | : | November 4th 2010 by Edições ASA (first published 2004) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Holiday. Christmas. Audiobook |
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England, 1936Estranged from her family in the north, Londoner Alix Richardson dreams of Christmas at Wyncrag, her grandfather's great house above a lake that has frozen for the first time in fifteen years. But she returns to find the house–and her family–still caught in the icy grip of her iron-willed grandmother.
As the Richardsons return to the winter wonderland of the frozen north, so too do others. Across the lake, at Grindley Hall, theatre director Hal Grindley comes home from New York with a secret of his own, to find his brothers all too anxious to relieve him of his share in the family business empire, while an enigmatic American film star adds a touch of mysterious glamour to the winter gathering.
Against the glittering backdrop of winter parties and skating on the lake, both Alix and Hal have to face disturbing truths about their families, their pasts—and about the two black-shirted men from the south who have come to stay, bringing the long shadows of fascism to this remote corner of England.
When one of the Blackshirts is found dead under the ice, the arrival of a Special Branch policeman gives urgency to Alix and Hal's inquiries and casts a sinister light on Lady Caroline's long reign at Wyncrag. But neither realises how dark their families' secrets are–or how a previous generation's tragedy has come back to haunt them...
For fans of English sagas and the world of Downton Abbey, A Frozen Lake is an atmospheric, multi-layered story of great families, their eccentricities, and their secrets, set amid a the dramatic landscape of the English Lake District.
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| Original Title: | The Frozen Lake ISBN13 9789892310596 |
| Edition Language: | Portuguese |
| Setting: | Westmorland, England(United Kingdom) |
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Ratings: 3.97 From 1635 Users | 115 ReviewsRate Containing Books A Casa do Lago
This was a long, almost 16 hours, Audiobook. It took awhile for plot to develop but I didn't mind. Descriptions of the house, lake and landscape became a character in the story. Numerous characters, each with a story to tell. All returning because the Lake has frozen over for the first time in 15 years. Skating during the day and dinner parties at night. All sorts of atmosphere, with awesome narration. All the characters are woven into this tale of family secrets. Does go darker at the end.If you love soap operas with lots of characters to keep track of and lots of twists and turns, then this is the book for you. I personally loved it and stayed up late to finish it because I could not put it down. By the end some of it was pretty obvious, but suspenseful none the less.
Slow buildVery slow to build up, but once all the characters were assembled the story really got going and I r enjoyed it.
The Frozen Lake by Elizabeth Edmondson sounded quaint, cozy, and full of intrigue. But does it deliver? The novel is set at the end of 1936 in northern England. It features two upper-crust families, long-kept secrets, and a world on the brink of war. What could be more mysterious than that?Unfortunately, I was quite disappointed in this overly long saga. It read more like a prudish soap opera than an engaging tale of suspense. There were so many characters that I could hardly keep track of them
4.5Loved this. Have enjoyed every book by Elizabeth Edmondson so far.Lots of characters, I drew a family tree.Ok the ending is obvious, but its nicely written with good strong characters. And I enjoyed the different ages of them, their relationships with each other, and the 2 households coming together.Loved Hal and Alex.
In the first couple of chapters we are introduced to all the characters and you may think what do all these people have in common. But don't get me wrong it isn't slow or boring in the beginning and before you know it you cannot put the book down. For a book with so many characters each one was well fleshed out and necessary to the plot and you grew to have empathy for Jane, wanted to go to bat for Perdita and wondered if Sir Henry had a bsckbone. How I grew to dislike Caroline Richardson and
3.5 stars on the book club rating scaleThere are a LOT of characters in this book - because it's mainly about two rather large families who are from the same town and some stuff that happened to them in the past, the last time that the lake froze over. Ten chapters in I was still trying to figure out who was who and even at the end I couldn't always remember who were friends, who were siblings, who were aunts/uncles/cousins, and who were completely unrelated and just there for interest... This
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