However the story plods along without ever really creating any atmospheric. I kept reading thinking... this its a slow burner but will dazzle at any moment and before I knew it, I was 3/4 way through before I felt any sense of intrigue or suspense. Its wasn't dark or disturbing like her other novels, the characters didn't really make any impact on me and by the end I was glad to have finished with the lot of them. subiectul. Anglia anilor 1900, o dramă de familie, un observator activ, o privire aruncată în culisele epocii edwardiene. Mrs Lilian England keeps strange hours, doesn't interact much with the children and doesn't involve herself in the running of the household. Mr England is friendly, relaxed and approachable and it's soon clear who really runs the house. This is a slow moving gothic tale, with Ruby's past carefully revealed and the relationships between the characters slowly evolving. It’s not going to be plain sailing is it? So I was wondering what turn this would have, would it be the Nanny (nurse) the family? A family member? I've read all of Stacey Halls' books, beginning with The Familiars in 2019 and The Foundling in 2020, both of which were 5 star reads. You can understand why Mrs England was high on my watch list, and I'm thrilled to report it was also a 5 star reading experience. This makes Stacey Halls an automatic must-read author for me and I can't wait to find out what what she's working on next.

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At what point did you suspect it might be Mr England and not Mrs England that Nurse May needed to watch out for? acțiunea. Nu e ticsită de evenimente, dar nici nu se lungește aiurea. Evenimentele sunt ușor de urmărit și reținut, ba chiar produc o reacții: frustrare, bucurie, teamă, anticipare. Why did Decca have Nurse May’s glove at the end of the book? Had she found it near Mr England’s body? jane eyre meets the yellow wallpaper. remarkable historical fiction - and we love to see, or rather, read it. Ruby May was worried about taking care of four children, but the children should not have been her main concern.

Lassan csordogáló történet, amihez apránként kapunk információt May dadus gyerekkoráról, családjáról. Ugyan akkor, így válik világossá miért olyan Mrs. England, mint amilyen. Mire a könyv végére érünk minden kiderül. De az olvasó képzeletére van bízva, kinek milyen irányba fordul az élete. The death of Mr England ended before it had even started which was a real shame and being one of the main characters I would have expected plot twists and unlikely turns in the road, but again, nothing.

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Az a durva, hogy a címadó Mrs. England titkánál engem sokkal jobban meglepett Ruby titka. Az előbbinél szerintem a történet vége felé nagyjából sejteni lehetett, hogy merről fúj a szél, de még így is meglepett. Ruby esetében viszont teljesen váratlanul éri az olvasót. Mrs England is the third novel by Stacey Halls. I’ve read both her previous works, The Familiars and The Foundling, and really enjoyed them both. I really like Stacey Halls’s style of writing so I was really excited to read Mrs England. Mrs England by Stacey Halls Review: Plot Stacey Halls gondosan felépített, nehéz, borongós atmoszférát teremt, ahogy az indák befonják a borítót, úgy olvasó is lassan fuldokolni kezd a sok homályos célzásban, apró jelben, a gondosan elhelyezett visszatekintésekben, és szóváltásokban. Mindent láthatunk, de mégsem vesszük észre a nyilvánvalót. Vagy mégis, de arról nem ejtünk szót, mert mi van ha tévedünk? Miközben pedig a cselekmény a maga lassú ütemében halad előre, a történetben mindinkább erőre kapnak az erős, jellemes nőalakok, akik aztán utat is törnek a fényre.

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The rest of the characters are pretty basic minor characters. Relatively one-dimensional, very predictable and for the most part not well developed or thought through.