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Title	:	A Spell of Winter
Author	:	Helen Dunmore
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 313 pages
Published	:	February 5th 2001 by Grove/Atlantic (first published January 1st 1995)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Gothic

A Spell of Winter

Helen Dunmore

Hardcover | Pages: 313 pages

Rating: 3.58 | 1950 Users | 215 Reviews

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Unsettling love and stifled horror create and then destroy the claustrophobic world of this lush, literary gothic set in turn-of-the-century England. Catherine and Rob Allen, siblings two years apart, grow up in a world of shameful secrets. Their mother creates a public outcry, abandoning her family for a bohemian life on the Continent. Their father, whose mental state always has been slightly precarious, is committed to an asylum in the country. The children are sealed off with their grandfather in a crumbling country estate accompanied by their sturdy and well-loved servant, Kate, and the predatory tutor, Miss Gallagher. In true gothic fashion, terror, violence and eroticism collect beneath every dark surface. Against this strange and secretive backdrop, Cathy and Rob develop a closeness so fierce that it eventually threatens to smother them both. Kate makes the first crack in their hermetically sealed world, which World War I eventually bursts wide open. With Kate's departure for Canada and Rob's for the front, destitute times at home force Cathy into self-reliance. It's only after she's redeemed by hardship that she's given a second chance to be redeemed by love.

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Original Title:	A Spell of Winter
ISBN:	0871137828 (ISBN13: 9780871137821)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Catherine, Rob
Literary Awards:	Orange Prize for Fiction (1996)

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This book is a depressing text of the multi-generational misery of one family. I finished the book in hopes of discovery the answer to the family secrets but found no satisfaction there or anywhere else in this book. But somebody liked this book since it is a "Orange Winner" a prestigious award from England. I found it dreary and the characters worthy of a good slap and a "What the heck are you thinking/doing!"

This haunting and evocative novel was the first Orange Prize Winner and set a high standard for future hopefuls. Helen Dunmore creates a world which is at once understandable and yet totally different. Rob and Catherine live in virtual isolation in the crumbling old house belonging to their grandfather. It is gradually revealed to us that their mother has left and is living abroad, while their father, unable to cope without her, has been admitted to a sanitorium. We see events through the eyes

For whatever reason, I have some kind of secret (not to secret now) fascination for literary brother/sister incest stories. Maybe because I have no brothers and thus no frame of reference to get suitably skeeved out by it. But whatever, neither here nor there.The trouble with this book was that it just plain loses you. Parts of it are good - her writing style is gorgeous in places, tedious in others - and frankly, I just had a hard time keeping up with what the hell was going on. You gotta have

I'm a big fan of Helen Dunmore's writing and this book did not disappoint. I felt like I was inside the head of the main character, Cathy. I saw what she saw, felt what she felt. A Spell of Winter takes you back to a different time with different social rules. Although quite disturbing at times I thoroughly enjoyed it and did not want the story to end.

They were bringing my uncle Joseph down the stairs. Narrow, twisty stairs they put in houses where theyd given no thought to the living or the dead. You couldnt get a coffin up them. Helen Dunmore needs no introductions. Taken from us too soon, she produced a number of the most unique and humane literary treasures in Contemporary British Literature. Having read most of her work, do I dare that A Spell Of Winter is her finest novel? I think I do Thinking of people when theyre not there - its one

Of all Helen Dunmore's books, this is my very favourite. I've read it twice and plan on reading it again because it is a truly beautifully written, haunting tale. The chill which has taken hold of the crumbling previously grand country house and its occupants is almost tangible - you will get cold fingers just holding the book and turning the pages. The house and characters are both occupied by dark secrets and watching the evolution/aftermath which is derived from them makes for compulsive

Strange, sad, majestically paced. I was 90% through with it before I realized that it didn't take place in Ireland. It has that rainy, melancholy, family oriented feel to it.