#BlogTour: Call Of The Curlew by Elizabeth Brook @ManxWriter @DoubledayUK @hannahlbright29 @TransworldBooks @annecater #CallOfTheCurlew #RandomThingsTours #5Stars

Book Synopsis:

Virginia Wrathmell has always known she will meet her death on the marsh.

One snowy New Year’s Eve, at the age of eighty-six, Virginia feels the time has finally come.

New Year’s Eve, 1939. Virginia is ten, an orphan arriving to meet her new parents at their mysterious house, Salt Winds. Her new home sits on the edge of a vast marsh, a beautiful but dangerous place. War feels far away out here amongst the birds and shifting sands – until the day a German fighter plane crashes into the marsh. The people at Salt Winds are the only ones to see it.

What happens next is something Virginia will regret for the next seventy-five years, and which will change the whole course of her life.

Call Of The Curlew is published in ebook and hardback on the 28th June 2018 and you can pre-order your copy of bothhere.

My Review:

There’s nothing I like better than a dual timeline mystery and Call Of The Curlew is definitely one of the best I have read.

The book is very atmospheric with the descriptions of the bleak, eerie marshes adding to the feeling that anything could happen. The bleakness seems to creep in side the house and affect the people living there, making them act very strangely at times.

The reader is aware almost from the start that something is not quite right with the house and the situation but is largely kept in the dark about what it might be.  The facts are slowly and tantalisingly revealed as the story unfolds in a way that is very well done by the author.  I was very intrigued and wanted to keep reading to find out what was going to happen.

The characters are very well created and developed well throughout the book.  I’m not sure if I particularly warmed to any of them though I did feel sorry for them and the situation they find themselves in.  Virginia was an interesting character very astute and capable one moment but very childlike at other times, even when she’s an 85 year old.  She obviously adored Clem which was very touching to see and her pain over what happened is very palpable, I did really feel for her then.  Max Deering is a great characters as he is very unlikeable and smarmy at times.  I wanted him to get his comeuppance and not get the ending he obviously wanted.

This is Elizabeth  Brooks’s debut book and I really can’t wait to read more from her in the future. If you like atmospheric, dual timeline mysteries with some great characters you’ll love this book. I felt this book was similar in style to The Taxidermist by Kate Mosse so if you liked that book I think you’ll enjoy this one.

Huge thanks to Anne Cater for inviting me onto the blog tour and to Hannah Bright for my copy this book.  This is definitely going on my keep forever shelf!

About The Author:

ELIZABETH BROOKS grew up in Chester, and read Classics at Cambridge. She lives on the Isle of Man with
her husband and children. Elizabeth describes herself as a “Brontë nerd”; Call of the Curlew is her homage to the
immersive and evocative writing of Charlotte Brontë.

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