THE SHROUDED WALLS

by Susan Howatch ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 19, 1971

Just a patch of the greensward that was Penmarric, presumably previously written, and one of those late Gothic-early Victorian stories as told by a first name-less seventeen-year-old heroine, one of a pair of orphaned, byblow twins. She accepts the proposal of Austrian Axel who needs an English wife to secure his inheritance and he takes her to Haraldsdyke where the shrouded walls close in on her. Did Axel kill his father or was it his dashing, also dead, half-brother Rodric? And what of his stepmother and her other two sons? And the not so pretty poison which now takes the life of the girl who loved Rodric? Lots of categorical questions in a variant of the genre you know so well but Miss Howatch keeps it toothsome.

Pub Date: Nov. 19, 1971

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Stein & Day

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov. 1, 1971

Categories: FICTION