Helen Halstead
Author of Mr. Darcy Presents His Bride
About the Author
Works by Helen Halstead
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- Birthdate
- 1950
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- Australia
- Places of residence
- Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- Occupations
- teacher
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Statistics
- Works
- 3
- Members
- 300
- Popularity
- #78,268
- Rating
- 3.3
- Reviews
- 16
- ISBNs
- 6
She tries to find out the mans adress...but...
It turns out no one knows of him or have seen him.Of course she wants to find out the truth of it so she enlists her brother in helping to inquire in the whereabouts of the man.
Her brother and sister thinks she is going insane because she keeps persisting in seeing this mysterious man.
Soon even the heroine begins to think she might have imagined this gentleman.Conjured up a suitable suitor to avoid dealing with her reality as a spinster without too many prospects.
At times I started to suspect the heroine was one of those unreliable narrators
And even that she had actually gone mad.
The author has this way of writing that makes one uneasy at times and she offsets this beautifully by showing the mundane side of life in the regency era.It heightens the suspense when others also begin to see the heroine as a little bit odd.
A suspenseful read. I wouldnt call it a gothic precisely but it has shades of it. I would recommend reading it through to the end to find out the truth.… (more)