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For me, Erskine is one author I can sink into and come out the other side satisfied, she just doesn't disappoint. Her storytelling features time travel, ghosts and rich historical elements, all prime ingredients for me, as a reader. This title, coming late June, features all of these elements, so it was the perfect book for a long weekend. In this split story, Miranda is an artist whose long time partner has recently died, and following his death, his ex-wife descends on their home acting as the...
This is a good book. In fact, if you have never read a Barbara Erskine this is probably a great book and I'm quite sure you will love it. I, however, have read many Barbara Erskine books and enjoyed them all but perhaps they no longer have quite the magic and mystery that they once held for me. The entwining of dual time periods is always fascinating and the historical details the author brings to the books always makes me want to learn more about the period and the real life people. This time t...
I've been a fan of Barbara Erskine's books since I first read Lady of Hay over twenty years ago. I wasn't over keen on her last book The Darkest Hour but feel she's back on track with this one.Miranda, Andy to her friends, goes to stay in Sleeper's Castle to house sit for her friend Sue, who is going to Australia for a year. It comes at the perfect time for Andy as she has just lost her partner of ten years and also her home and possessions to her partner's ex-wife who appears to be slightly unh...
I did have a major problem with one of the characters thinking and acting and even if the character was described as a sociopath I still felt that she disrupted the flow of the story in a number of occasions. Still, this was a wonderfully interesting book that held my attention and made me wonder afterwards...
Fantastic book. Barbara Erskine once again didn't fail to disappoint.
I loved this, Barbara Erskine on top form. Take a recently bereaved, emotionally vulnerable woman and have her do a favour for a friend by housesitting in an old house on the Welsh Marches, close to Hay-on Wye. She's living there on her own, of course, apart from a cat called Pepper, short for Culpepper. Add another woman to the mix, one who lived in the same house hundred of years before, a mysterious gardener, a vindictive ex-wife, a good dollop of Welsh history, misty hills, herbal lore and s...
absolutely brilliant atmospheric read
Sleeper’s Castle by Barbara ErskineI borrowed Erskine’s Sleeper’s Castle from the library, and enjoyed it so much that I shall buy a copy to put on the bookshelf on which I keep novels I treasure, and will read more than once.Sleeper’s castle in the era of Owain Glyndwr, Prince of Wales, who waged a campaign to free Wales from Henry IV of England.In this time slip novel, Andy has been made homeless by her partner’s vindictive former wife. She grabs the opportunity be the caretaker of Sleeper’s C...
I don't do reviews, enough to say that I loved this book, my first by Barbara Erskine...but not my last! Now on to Lady of Hay...
I think I waited 2 years too long to read this book! It is a masterpiece in my mind. Yes, it's long and the story is complicated. That's why it took me so long to read it. But, every word is perfectly placed and the story is so amazing that you need to stop reading and think about what you've read before continuing. I loved the story and the mingling of past and present. It was a little confusing at first, but after stopping to think about it, it became much easier. Great story by an amazing aut...
Sleepers Castle was once a fortified manor, medieval, the story goes back to ancient druid times "a place for sacred dreaming" and this sets the scene of the story of Catrin who lives in the past - 1400.The present - Andy who arrives at Sleepers Castle discovers she is possessed by dreams of Catrin and her tragic life, but not only does Andy have to deal with such real, vivid dreams, but lurking gleefully in the distance, is a jealous ex wife, plotting and planning to get her revenge.This book e...
An enjoyable read and I always end up buying the hardback as i cant wait those extra months for the paperback. The book started of at a great pace and very edgy... I have to say the last few chapters lost the excitement and seemed rushed. The storyline with Bryn and Andy was a little weak and Meryn should have been in the storyline much earlier
