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Erin Kelly (1) (1976–)

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Födelsedag
1976
Kön
female
Nationalitet
UK
Land (för karta)
England, UK
Födelseort
London, England, UK
Bostadsorter
London, England, UK
Utbildning
Warwick University - English
Yrken
journalist

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We know you know by Erin Kelly covers a lifespan of 60 years from different view points. Part 1 starts with Marianne who moves into a flat her husband surprised her with in a building, which used to be a mental hospital in her hometown. This forces her to confront her past. Part 2 covers her time as a teenager and explains her connection to the asylum. The author switches then to "evil" Helen in part 3 and 4, describing her youth and her life in old age.

Although the story is unpredictable, if found it difficult to get into. The "secret" was mentioned and how guilty Marianne feels about the past, but the story kept skidding around without revealing what happened for so long (especially in part 1 of the book) that I lost interest.

I enjoyed reading it more halfway through as my sympathy really changed when hearing the story from Helen's perspective.

This was the first novel I read from Erin Kelly, I would definitely read more from her.
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die-buecherdiebin | 8 andra recensioner | Feb 3, 2024 |
Three stars are for the book, with maybe one of those stars born of a gravity effect from the five-star drama - of the same name and similar pedigree - pulling up the score of this lackluster adaptation. Hidden within the BBC show are depths unspoken. Unfortunately, that depth is of an elusive, almost silent variety. A better novelist could have listened, through the silence, and found the truly literary amongst the dramatic. Instead, we have a thinly disguised, reformatted teleplay. Even the tense carried over, as if the author couldn't be bothered to transform the most surely present-tense script (scripts are almost universally written in the present-tense) into a more traditional, past-tense novel. Simply set the writing application for stun - reformatting the script - and insert the odd detail, a bit of inner-dialogue, a novelistic touch. I exaggerate, but by how much I'm not sure.

But do catch the BBC program.
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MichaelDavidMullins | 14 andra recensioner | Oct 17, 2023 |
Eleanor Churcher has spent her whole life trying to outrun the bone hunt that her parents had written into a book "The Golden Bones" which features a woman named Elinore whose bones were scattered and must be put back together again in order to return to her true love. Gold bones were indeed scattered around by her parents with clues hidden in the book. However, the Bonehunter community eventually turned to the real Eleanor and believed the last bone was the one in her body. Now, on the fiftieth anniversary of "The Golden Bones" Nell has returned home with her family for an anniversary celebration where her father is going to reveal the final missing golden bone to put together the fictional Elinore. However, when it's time for the reveal, a very real human bone appears instead of the golden bone. The Churcher family is sent into a frenzy with a real skeleton in the closet, a missing gold bone and decades of family secrets revealed.

The Skeleton Key is a complex mystery with interesting characters and a plot that keeps building. With a storyline that moves back and forth through time and from the points of view of many different characters, I was kept on my toes with the mystery of the missing golden bone, the Churcher's history and the potential suspects. I was entranced by the entire Churcher family and how their life seemed like a fairy tale from the outside, but was cracked and tearing the family apart from the inside. It was interesting to see how the different family members dealt with living in such a prominent and sought after family, as well as how they dealt with the renewed interest and investigation surrounding the real skeleton. With an interesting twist and unexpected ending, The Skeleton Key offers a mystery wrapped in a mystery with a cast of amazing characters.

This book was received for free in return for an honest review.
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Mishker | 6 andra recensioner | Oct 10, 2023 |
I loved this book, which I initially picked up more or less by chance in Waterstone’s, looking for another book to complete my selection to take advantage of one of their multi-buy offers. Not only was it a compelling and gripping story in its own right, but it brought back memories of various ‘treasure-hunt’ books from the past which I remember being hugely popular throughout the late 1970s and 1980s.

The story is mainly narrated by Nell, whose father had written one such treasure hunt book back in the 1970s. This had proved immensely popular, as it encouraged readers to search for components in a bejewelled skeleton. Over the years, all the section but one had been discovered. However, in addition to its considerable commercial success, the book had also spawned a sort of cult following, many of whose members became dangerously obsessed with the writer’s daughter, convinced that she herself represented the missing piece.

Reading what I have just written above, I realise it seems rather ridiculous. Fortunately, Erin Kelly writes far better than I do, and her story is completely compelling and I had no difficulty suspending my disbelief. She manages the narrative effectively, moving back and forth in time, and also adopting different narrative perspectives. There are also several finely balanced subplots unfurling throughout the book, all of which serve to deepen the patina of plausibility.

Nell is an especially well drawn character, and I found her fragile and antagonistic relationship with her family very easy to believe.
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Eyejaybee | 6 andra recensioner | Oct 5, 2023 |

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Verk
19
Även av
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Medlemmar
2,495
Popularitet
#10,282
Betyg
½ 3.6
Recensioner
131
ISBN
236
Språk
9

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