Bellman and Black

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Diane Setterfield: Bellman and Black (2013, Orion Publishing Group, Limited)

320 pages

English language

Published Sept. 3, 2013 by Orion Publishing Group, Limited.

ISBN:
978-1-4091-2804-5
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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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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, ghost
  • Fiction, historical, general
  • Fiction, gothic
  • England, fiction