Cold Harbour

This is certainly very different from the other FBY books I have read. But I was anxious to read it for that reason. It reads like so many old fashioned gothic type stories of the past - and is therfore hard to put down, and very readable. Like other stories of this type, however you need to read it for what it is - and not take it too seriously. The novel opens with Evelyn and Ronald Wake sitting down on a terrace in Italy one evening, in the company of an unnamed author and clergyman. From here they tell their incredible story. Their listeners chip in from time to time with various theories of a theological or acedemic nature in a bid to understand exactly what did happen in Cold Harbour. A good read all in all, but it makes me wonder show more why FBY suddenly wrote such a different type of book. show less