Bellman & Black

A Ghost Story

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eBook, 328 pages

English language

Published Sept. 2, 2013

ISBN:
978-1-4767-1195-9
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Killing a bird with his slingshot as a boy, William Bellman grows up a wealthy family man unaware of how his act of childhood cruelty will have terrible consequences until a wrenching tragedy compels him to enter into a macabre bargain with a stranger in black.

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reviewed Bellman & Black by Diane Setterfield

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3-. I didn't dislike Bellman & Black, but it didn't wow me (I really liked Setterfield's "The Thirteenth Tale" and "Once Upon a River"). It dragged on— I think it would have more impactful if shorter (more tightly written).

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Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Nineteenth century
  • Partnership
  • Cruelty
  • Funeral rites and ceremonies