Black Rabbit Hall: The enchanting mystery from the author of The Glass House

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Eve Chase’s novels are about glamorous families with tragic pasts, set in wonderful locations...one of my favourite reads so far this year.’ Daily Mail Book of the year for me so far. I am a sobbing emotional heap on the floor. Loved it. Loved the characters, the setting, the writing, everything. I have a few questions in with the author and will write up a full review along with the answers to those questions as a feature on the blog soon.

I want to thank the publisher for providing me with a free copy through Edelweiss for an honest review! This absorbing tale and family saga is full of dark secrets, betrayals, and manipulations, but as the two storylines begin to merge, the ghosts of the past will finally rest in peace, paving the way for healing and new beginning for all. This sentence, with its tone, its setting, its haunting foreshadowing, sets the rest of the book up perfectly. I had two problems with this book: 1. The writer's weird use of strange metaphors (which, thankfully, she used less and less as the book went on. And 2. I disliked Lorna, the "modern story" narrator. She seemed overdramatic to me, and some of her decisions illogical. Her story wasn't very interesting to me.A gorgeously written novel describing the love and affection that hold families together and the powerful forces that can tear them apart. Ghosts are everywhere, not just the ghost of Momma in the woods, but ghosts of us too, what we used to be like in those long summers ... A gorgeously written novel describing the love and affection that hold families together and the powerful forces that can tear them apart.”– Huffington Post They find their aunt and uncle still reeling from the disappearance of their only daughter, five years before. No one seems any closer to finding out the truth. Eve Chase writes this book so beautifully. These are just a couple of passages which took my breath away whilst reading:

Chase parcels out her clues slowly, without a hint of showiness. About families — the ones we’re born into, the ones we make and especially the ones we flee.' As children, Amber and Toby are almost inseparable, but after their mother's death they both change dramatically—Amber reflects that she "no longer feel[s] like a girl inside" (p. 93), and Toby becomes increasingly angry and wild. Why do you think the twins grow apart, instead of together? Do you think they would have stayed close if Momma had lived? Why or why not?It's beautifully, poetically written and reminiscent of everything from I Capture The Castle to Hansel And Gretel. Eve Chase is a name to watch. The old house definitely is a trove of memories and untold secrets and stories. You can smell the dust, see the family’s comings and goings, hear the water dripping from the leaky roof, and visualize the people who lived there.