Mrs England: The award-winning Sunday Times bestseller from the winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award

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Ez a gótikus fenyegetésekkel és rejtélyekkel teli Edward-kori történet meggyőző és teljességgel lebilincselő.” – Louise Hare, a This Lovely City szerzője I had read Ms. Halls' book THE LOST ORPHAN/THE FOUNDLING and thoroughly enjoyed her writing style and story line. Of course there is no such thing as the perfect family and Ruby is alerted from the beginning that all is not well: When Ruby May takes on the position of nurse to the England children of Hardcastle House in Yorkshire, she finds herself puzzled by Mrs England whilst drawn to the Master of the house. Yet slowly she discovers that all is not as it seems!

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Doamna England este un roman atmosferic, întunecat prin decorul său, dar și luminat de oamenii care apar în acesta. Ruby reușește să deslușească misterele din casă, să se împrietenească cu cei din jur, să sufere o decepție în dragoste. Am admirat-o pe Ruby pentru că nu uită niciodată unde-i este locul și care sunt îndatoririle și pentru faptul că e capabilă de o dăruire de sine fără margini. Have you ever been so disappointed by a book that you didn’t even want to write the review, because you really did not want to think of it any longer? The scene then shifts to another assignment, with Ruby moving to rural Yorkshire to nurse the four children of the eponymous Mrs England. She appears as a weak and withdrawn lady, having delegated decisions about family life to her husband, the manager of a cotton mill. As Autumn progresses and days grow shorter and colder, the unsettling family atmosphere darkens, with strange events taking place in the woods and villages that neighbour the England family residence. The death of Mr England ended before it had even started which was a real shame and being one of the main characters I would have expected plot twists and unlikely turns in the road, but again, nothing.

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I've read both of Stacey Hall's previous novels: The Familiars and The Foundling, so knew I would enjoy this one, and I did. Still though, of the three, The Familiars is my favorite. It's the elements of witchcraft in The Familiars, that and the atmospheric setting, that make it so. and when the eventual film adaptation comes i want keeley hawes as mrs england, morgan spector as mr england (i cannot find it in myself to care that he’s american), and millie bobby brown as nurse may. i did not picture anyone else but them when reading this or hear anyone else’s voices but theirs. i’m no casting director, but the roles are theirs. A szoba olyan csendes volt, hogy hallottam, ahogy megszakad a szívem, és ez úgy hangzott, mint amikor egy százszorszép szára kettétörik. jane eyre meets the yellow wallpaper. remarkable historical fiction - and we love to see, or rather, read it.

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Yorkshire megye, 1904. Ruby Mayt, a frissen végzett dadát felveszik Charles és Lilian England négy gyermeke mellé. Ruby reméli, hogy ez az a kiugrási lehetőség, amelyre mindig is várt, ugyanis Englandék befolyásos gyártulajdonos dinasztiából származnak, jelentős vagyonnal rendelkeznek. De az új dada számára, amint megszokja az élet rendjét az eldugott Hardcastle House-ban, világossá válik, hogy a titokzatos és szépséges Mrs. Englanddel valami nincs rendjén. That's probably not a problem for many readers, but I still wanted to mention it - because this also means that if you read a lot, you've probably internalised these structures, be it consciously or subconsciously, and you will also likely find the book rather predictable. I kept waiting for something fresh, a twist I hadn't seen before, but it never came.I've read all of Stacey Halls' books, beginning with The Familiars in 2019 and The Foundling in 2020, both of which were 5 star reads. You can understand why Mrs England was high on my watch list, and I'm thrilled to report it was also a 5 star reading experience. This makes Stacey Halls an automatic must-read author for me and I can't wait to find out what what she's working on next. With her previous two novels, The Familiars and The Foundling, Stacey Halls proved that she’s an author with a unique talent for writing engrossing and atmospheric historical fiction centered around female protagonists haunted by complicated pasts. With the bar set so high, it’s always a worry that the next book an author writes won’t live up to the early successes of its predecessors. Happily, that couldn’t be further from the truth with Mrs England, which opens with an intriguing flash-forward, before unravelling the events that lead Ruby to that moment. Mrs England is a tale of mental health, power and marriage, but it’s also a story of the deepest and darkest deception – of the deceit between a husband and wife, between adults and children, between a person’s heart and their mind. It’s made all the more compelling by its isolated Yorkshire setting, which cuts its characters off from the outside world and which Halls writes about so beautifully. She has the ability to draw readers into her story so completely that it’s a real effort to wrench yourself out of it when you invariably have to put the book down. If you’ve loved Stacey Halls’ previous books, you’re in for a real treat with this novel – the author’s most evocative, intriguing and compelling book so far.