I washed out there a long time in French, unfortunately in a very abridged version, entitled «Another Annabel". This publication (targeting eager or lazy readers) navait that kept the main thing of the plot, as this is lusage, depriving dune drives much of what makes the charm of the novel.
There First of history itself, exciting: a young Canadian woman, Mary Grey, came to spend some time in England, was noticed by a man of great beauty, Connor Winslow, who takes her to his cousin disappeared for eight years, and probably dead. After a strange interview that oscillates between tacit threats and two-way feedback, she manages to persuade him of his identity.
He then offers to "work", well-paid, which is to impersonate Annabel Winslow, the disappeared, until the grandfather of it, a sick old man, has made his will in his favor. It will after his death lawfully give Connor the property and money that laccompagne. After much dhésitations, she accepted, and the first part, exciting shows us "lentraînement" Mary Connor and his half-sister Lisa and his arrival at the family farm, and the first days, rich in meetings, lobligent attention to that at all times so as not to betray.
The story is written in first person, and the author has captured remarkably, and with diabolical cleverness, the conflicting emotions of his heroine. It gradually discovers the secrets dAnnabel through the remarks of his relatives, and the tension will rise through the pages and days, with threats of more and more precise, Completion ending, incredibly surprising to the reader.
But there is also everything else, which in my opinion makes this novel a Doeuvre leader. Like a great detective novel in dune lhorlogerie Swiss precision, the reader understands that in the last pages that the author has absolutely everything he says, from the very beginning, never hide anything from him while leading him exactly where she wanted
This is also a very literary novel, and leading a remarkable reflection on the romantic intrigues, like the perfectly highlighted another surfer This is also a book about books, never pedantic constantly peppered with quotes that make you want to drive to go look for texts cities.
This is finally, in addition to the plot so skilfully woven a beautiful composition of characters, all remarkable, some extraordinarily engaging, and would love to meet quon And we should also mention the descriptions always wisely, never free, bringing a touch and a special atmosphere at the time they are made.
Mary Stewart? incomparable author, in my eyes.
