Black Rabbit Hall
Review:
A tragic story with a hopeful ending.
We follow the lives of Lorna in the present and Amber, the eldest of four Alton children, in the 1960s. Following a tragic incident with the Altons, we find the family in distress. They live in a manor during school breaks, in Cornwall, named Black Rabbit Hall following the many black rabbits that adventure around the grounds. After the incident, everything became quiet and still. Sadness overhauled the home.
Three decades later, Lorna finds her way to Pencraw Hall with her fiancé, Jon. They wanted to find the best place to get married, one of which was a beautiful but run-down old manor. A feeling that there used to be life filling around the corridors, yet abandoned. They find a servant serving the old lonely woman who currently lives in the soulless building. Lorna felt familiar with the place, spiralling her to become obsessed with Pencraw Hall, wanting to find answers about herself after seeing photos of her young self with her late mother outside the Hall.
I enjoyed the flow of the book, travelling back and forth to different perspectives while finding answers about the manor, following the story. At times, the reader may discover more before Amber and vice versa, making how the question.
I struggled to get into the story at first, but once the plot reached the main event and the reason why everything goes tragic for the Altons, the book became interesting. Finding the plot holes and how Lorna finds her way to the Hall made me want to reach the end to reveal the answers to each mystery.
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