The Woman In The Mirror
Written by Rebecca James
Narrated by Charlotte Newton-John and Katharine Mangold
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
‘You’ll be the woman of this house, next, miss. And you’ll like it.’
1947
Governess Alice Miller loves Winterbourne the moment she sees it. Towering over the Cornish cliffs, its dark corners and tall turrets promise that, if Alice can hide from her ghosts anywhere, it’s here.
And who better to play hide and seek with than twins Constance and Edmund? Angelic and motherless, they are perfect little companions.
2018
Adopted at birth, Rachel’s roots are a mystery. So, when a letter brings news of the death of an unknown relative, Constance de Grey, Rachel travels to Cornwall, vowing to uncover her past.
With each new arrival, something in Winterbourne stirs. It’s hiding in the paintings. It’s sitting on the stairs.
It’s waiting in a mirror, behind a locked door.
Rebecca James
Rebecca James worked in publishing for several years before leaving to write full-time, and is now the author of several novels written under a pseudonym, as well as The Woman in the Mirror under her own name. Her favorite things are autumn walks, Argentinean red wine and curling up in the winter with a good old-fashioned ghost story. She lives in Bristol with her husband and two daughters.
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Reviews for The Woman In The Mirror
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ok, this one is Gothic with a capital G. Isolated neo-Gothic manor house atop a seaside cliff (cue the Dark Shadows theme music); naive governess; precocious boy and girl twins, brooding widower captain, previous governess met a dubious end, painting whose human subject moves, an eerie mirror with a past, and madness. That’s the 1947 storyline. Then there is the present-day storyline, the adoptee looking for her roots, which may be in that house.Melodrama galore, bur I enjoyed it. The audiobook use of two narrators for the two storylines worked well.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Small.....eeeeekkkkkkk!!!!! That epilogue....I feel as though I should have seen it coming but oh dear! This is...a thriller and yes, quite creepy, but so well written. You can see and hear and feel the characters.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Alice Miller becomes governess to twins at Winterbourne along the Cornwall coast in 1947. She loves the house, the children, and its master. In the present, the death of the female twin results in an unexpected inheritance for Rachel Wright, an art gallery owner from New York. Readers are treated to an old-fashioned Gothic novel with the perfect house, setting, and backstory. It reminded me of that genre's novels I read in the 1970s and loved. While I generally don't like novels that switch back and forth between time periods, this one worked better than many. I will see what other novels by this author might await me.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Woman in the Mirror by Rebecca James is a 2020 Minotaur publication.An eerie tribute to supernatural Gothic tales!It’s 1947 and Alice Miller has just arrived at Winterbourne Hall to start her new job as governess for Jonathan de Grey’s twins. Alice is hoping this position will help her move beyond her haunted past as she works to keep her own secrets buried.However, Jonathan is not a very warm person, at all, and the bond she initially forges with the children quickly sours. Not only that, the house itself appears to have an evil intent- its purpose to drive Alice to the brink of insanity…Fast forward to present day New York, where Rachel Wright discovers she has inherited Winterbourne. Because she was adopted at birth, Rachel feels this may be the perfect opportunity to learn more about her heritage.Yet, upon arrival, she finds that Winterbourne’s history is far from romantic, and despite her determination to stay and uncover all the long buried secrets of its past, the house and its tragic legacy prove to be more of a formidable opponent than she bargained for...This book had my name on it! Rebecca James did a fantastic job of creating the intense uneasiness of a good spooky Gothic tale of terror, without lapsing into ridiculous clichés. The book is in some ways an homage to some of the greats, replete with the Cornish setting, the governess, the imposing house, and all those dark secrets, and of course, the requisite touch of the supernatural.While the story is true to the classics, the modern- day timeline, allows James to put her own contemporary stamp on the story. The suspense is taut, the atmosphere heavy and malevolent, seamlessly blending the past with the present.This is my kind of Gothic story! I loved it! I am so happy to see the traditional themes given a seat of honor is this topical tale of Gothic suspense!! Well done!4.5 stars
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Greatly enjoyed it! Could not put it down, very captivating. Ending felt a little rushed and maybe too-easily resolved, but it had me relishing every word until the end.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I expected a gothic style story to be set in the eighteenth or nineteenth century but this book vacillated between 1947 and the present. Alice in 1947 hoping for a better life, a better position, is hired as a governess at the very old, decrepit Winterbourne Hall, her new home. Her employer is as broken as his abode, his children damaged beyond definition. This book is an achingly long look at the descent into madness. It was overdone and overwrought and some tight editing could have helped sharpen the story.The second, more recent timeline was kind of a ho hum way to move the story back and forth, create and define lineage while trying to resolve the mystery. Too many loose ends, unbelievable situations, in the nick of time rescues left me disbelieving and disappointed.Thank you NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press / Minotaur Books for a copy.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/53.5 Winterbourne. The haunting edifice, ancestral home of the De Grey's, situated on the fluids of Cornwall. The place where a young woman, with her own secret last, is hired to be the governess tongue young, motherless De Grey twins. Well, who can resist. A haunted estate, but haunted by whom and why? Strong gothic tones, secrets, where things are not always as they appear. Manderly, anyone? What is true, what is not? Two timelines, present and last. The future plot brings another young woman to a now shadow of the estate it once was. This young woman trying to find the clues to her own life. Though I seldom find both timelines of equal interest, this one was quite close.Dark, gloomy outside, curled up on my couch in s comfy fleece, what could be better than to find oneself immersed in a dark, gloomy book?