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The Winter Ghosts

by Kate Mosse
Julian Rhind-Tutt
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Sepulchre and Labyrinth-a compelling story of love, ghosts and remembrance.

 

World War I robbed England and France of an entire generation of friends, lovers and futures. In Freddie Watson's case, the battlefields took his beloved brother and, at times, his peace of mind. In the winter of 1928, still seeking some kind of resolution, Freddie is travelling through the beautiful but forbidding French Pyrenees. During a snowstorm, his car spins off the mountain road. Freezing and dazed, he stumbles through the woods, emerging in a tiny village, where he finds an inn to wait out the blizzard. There he meets Fabrissa, a lovely young woman also mourning a lost generation. Over the course of one night, Fabrissa and Freddie share their stories. By the time dawn breaks, Freddie will have unearthed a tragic mystery that goes back through the centuries, and discovered his own role in the life of this old remote town.

By turns thrilling, poignant, and haunting, this is a story of two lives touched by war and transformed by courage.

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  • Release date

    February 3, 2011

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781101978214
      • File size: 155159 KB
      • Duration: 05:23:14

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      In a voice filled with subtle possibility, Julian Rhind-Tutt sets the chilling atmosphere for Kate Mosse's intelligent ghost story. Frederick Watson was hospitalized for depression after the death of his beloved brother in the Great War. Years later, while driving through the Pyrenees, a car accident sends him to a remote village whose inhabitants are dressed in medieval costume. That night he meets Fabrissa, a beautiful woman who tells him a tragic tale. With all the spookiness of a horror story told in the dark, Rhind-Tutt takes listeners through mental institutions, locked towers, dank graveyards, and ruined castles. Controlled and understated, Rhind-Tutt's husky breathiness conjures Frederick's heartfelt grief, an ancient mystery, and an assortment of credible fourteenth- and twentieth-century ghosts. S.J.H. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      November 15, 2010
      In Mosse's wisp of a new novel (after Sepulchre), 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. By the next morning, she is gone, leaving Freddie alone to unlock a ghostly mystery hidden for 600 years. This is a staunchly old-fashioned story, taking fully 100 pages to get moving, and by the time things pick up, the gist of the narrative will be obvious to anyone who has ever sat through a Twilight Zone episode. Freddie's obtuseness does little to help along a gruel-thin story.

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