6/12/2023 0 Comments The villa a novel rachel hawkins![]() ![]() As the young female writer is described alongside her husband and the cruel aristocrat (aren't they always so.), the reader realizes these fictional characters are more real than at first supposed. This is a reimagining of the famous summer of 1814, when Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, and Lord Byron held a ghost story contest from which Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was written. Leaving the present day and the to friends, Hawkins' second narrative concerns itself with the people who inhabited the villa a tragic summer long ago. This usually strengthens the story and makes it more than just some detective story or murder book-gives it depth. Perhaps like fellow author Gin Phillips, there is a balance of social awareness trickled into the mystery and mayhem. ![]() As with her previous two novels, Reckless Girls and The Wife Upstairs, Hawkins is focused on how women talk and act around one another. ![]()
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