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All this material comes together in a very pleasant and entertaining read – a hint of modern day romance, an interesting historical story to uncover, and it later turns out, lots of surprising revelations and coincidences. The characters were appealing enough that I was happy to believe the way the various strands of the story all conveniently came together.
There were also plenty of issues to be resolved to bring dramatic tension to both past and present strands of the story and make this a real page -turner. This book is not very original and the story is sometimes rather predictable. There is some heavy -handed foreshadowing at the start of the book, including this ludicrous sentence in Chapter 1: ''It was at that moment that the Hand of Destiny struck''. However, I didn't notice these lapses into bad writing too much when I was reading on to find out what happened next, and I really enjoyed ''A Place of Secrets'' and look forward to reading Rachel Hore's previous 3 novels.
Thank you to Simon & Schuster for sending a copy of this book to the Bookbag. We also have a review of [[The House on Bellevue Gardens by Rachel Hore]].
''A Place of Secrets'' is one of many books using grand old houses as a starting point for stories about the links between past and present. If these interest you, you might also like Kate Morton's books [[The House at Riverton by Kate Morton|The House at Riverton]] and [[The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton|The Forgotten Garden]], or Charlotte Moore's novel [[Grandmother's Footsteps by Charlotte Moore|Grandmother's Footsteps]]. [[Hancox by Charlotte Moore|Hancox]] is non-fiction about the family house where Charlotte Moore still lives.
