review written and read live on bookshow by Brian Lowen Aug 2016
Sean is on the
run. We don’t know why or who he is running from but we do gradually learn this
in flashbacks throughout the story.
We meet him as he
is abandoning his battered, blood stained car in the depths of rural France in
the height of the summer heat.
He takes to the
road and starts walking, hitch hiking lifts, but when he stops for a rest in a
cool wood he steps on a vicious animal trap and cannot move. He calls for help
as he cannot move and feels he is going to die. He sinks into unconsciousness
but then is rescued by the two daughters who live on the farm wherein the wood
is situated. He is taken down to the farm buildings and kept in a dilapidated
barn where he is restored to health, although still having to use a crutch,
because of his crushed leg.
When their Father,
the surly farmer Ahmed finds out he is being kept there he is furious and
demands that Sean do some work to pay for his keep. As Sean struggles to help
on the farm he explores this remote place with its locked gates, run down vineyard
and brooding lake and so his adventures begin as he discovers
the horrific secrets of this chilling place.
feel nothing much
is happening but it is still a gripping story. Well recommended.
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