![]() ![]() I’ve seen the adaptation on the TV but the book is so much more immersive and gothic. ![]() This is one gripping and very visual novel. When in the present day a writer comes to take down the story of his house and its ghosts, one woman knows more than she is letting on…īooktrailer lots to love about this book:Ī biographer is invited to come and interview her about books… Twins – identical twins at that – running around the hallowed halls, the grand gardens outside, the open spaces yet in a world of their own. There is a gardener who takes care of the children in the house along with his wife, but even he doesn’t know the full story. Death seems to stalk these walls and the grounds outside. ![]() Secrets about twins, a house where the walls have ears, a house left to children when their guardians die. Imagine arriving at Ribblesworth station as they did in the TV adaptation and heading up to Angelfield where you are to write a memoir of a woman with secrets to tell. ![]() Both can be visited by the public but Duncombe Park has more grounds and things to see. The TV adaptation starring Olivia Coleman and Vanessa Redgrave however was filmed in and around two main locations – Duncombe Park where most of the exterior shots where filmed and Burton Agnes Hall where the interior shots were filmed in the red room. The settings in the book are fictional as is the main house Angelfield where most of the book is set. ![]()
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