'Rayne handles a complicated story with many skeins very cleverly. A Dark Dividing is a novel that tells the story of two families, each with a set of twins. This is the author's debut in the United States and hopefully we will be able to read more of Sarah Rayne on this side of the pond. Extremely creepy in some passages but, very understandable. As Harry delves into the violent and terrible history of Mortmain, in an attempt to uncover what happened to Simone and Sonia, and, a century before them, to Viola and Sorrel Quinton, he finds himself drawn into a number of interlocking mysteries, each one more puzzling - and sinister - than the last. Sarah Raynes The Dark Dividing sounded deliciously creepy. Quill says: A Dark Dividing is a terrific read. Just what did happen to Simone's twin sister who disappeared without trace several years before? And what is the Anderson sisters' connection to another set of twin girls, Viola and Sorrel Quinton, born in London on 1st January 1900?Īll Harry's lines of enquiry seem to lead to the small Shropshire village of Weston Fferna and the imposing ruin of Mortmain House, standing grim and forbidding on the Welsh borders. Rayne also writes under the name Bridget Wood and Frances Gordon. But once he's met the enigmatic Simone, Harry is intrigued. Sarah Rayne (born 1947) is an English award-winning author of psychological thriller novels. Journalist Harry Fizglen is sceptical when his editor asks him to investigate the background of Simone Anderson, a new Bloomsbury artist. People died and people disappeared, and although most of us suspected something odd had occurred, no one ever got at the truth.' 'Something strange happened within that family, Harry.
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