The Haunt, The

by A . L . Barker (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1999

  $3.40

  Set in old forest country on the tip of Cornwall, The Haunt is a seedy, dishevelled and decaying hotel, but attracts those with longings, with deep-seated, incommunicable fears: an elderly couple, discovering love of a different kind; a child who needs a friend; and an eccentric painter.

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $10.42

  Set in 'old forest country' on the tip of Cornwall, The Belle Chasse is a seedy, dishevelled and decaying hotel, but like the forest itself, with the germ of the legendary Cornish great forest at its heart, The Haunt is a place that welcomes those with longings, with their own deep-seated, incommunicable fears. There is the elderly couple who have just moved to the country, there to find solace but in fact discovering love of a different kind. The child who is odd and needs a friend. The eccentric painter, the loner whose wife has left him. With her precise, pithy use of language and clear sense of judgement, A. L.Barker's THE HAUNT is a wholly original novel which picks up a clutch of characters and slowly reveals the very eccentricities that drive them. 'She is a quietly excellent and very English writer, who believes in fatalism as others believe in action. She deserves to be read and read again.' Anita Brookner