Monday, April 25, 2011

The Winter Ghosts - Kate Mosse - Book 18

A belief in the supernatural will help with reading The Winter Ghosts. How else can we immerse ourselves in the world of Freddie Watson who meets several ghosts - and almost falls in love with one - in a trip to France some years after the end of the First World War? Freddie is in mourning for his brother and is, in a sense, already living with ghosts. Perhaps that's why it's so easy for him to tune into the messages from the ghosts of people who died in appalling circumstances some 700 years ago. This is a haunting and mysterious tale, which richly evokes the reserved people of a remote French town as well as the Cathars who lived there centuries before. I enjoyed this book immensely, though the plot is rather obvious.

Amazon's description:
Freddie Watson is a stilted young man who has not gotten over older brother George's disappearance on the Western Front during WWI. It is now 10 years since the Armistice, and Freddie, after a stay in a mental institution, has come to the French Pyrenees to find peace. While motoring through a snowstorm, he crashes his car and ends up in the small village of Nulle, where he meets a beautiful young woman named Fabrissa. In the course of an evening, Fabrissa tells Freddie a story of persecution, resistance, and death, hinting at a long-buried secret.

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