I suppose this was a conscious decision on Ashe's part, but man is it exhausting, especially if you're like me and have a hard time skimming. Other than that, this tale - about young Lucy, who's out on This was a slow, SLOW burn, reminiscent of Iris Murdoch or Daphne du Maurier's gothics, only Ashe loves to indulge in uppity-sounding dialogue that stretches for pages upon pages, where half the time there's nothing to indicate who's doing the speaking it's all just frivolous background scenery. This was a slow, SLOW burn, reminiscent of Iris Murdoch or Daphne du Maurier's gothics, only Ashe loves to indulge in uppity-sounding dialogue that stretches for pages upon pages, where half the time there's nothing to indicate who's doing the speaking it's all just frivolous background scenery. As darkness and madness join hands to drag her into a world of evil and corruption, Lucy senses that it is to him she must turn - to his mysterious strength, for good or ill - though to do so is to expose herself to the pain of forbidden love and to fuel the sexual fantasies which haunt her waking or sleeping.more Worse still, along with the strangeness of Lucy's new home, goes a painful obsession with the beautiful Jesuit priest who she sees fleetingly on the pub, or across the street. And an oddly-assorted band of strangers starts to close in around Lucy - locals from the pub, who know the flat who want to join her at all hours for coffee, for drinks, and for seances of which 'dear Maisie' was so fond. There is rotting food in the kitchen and a sickly sweet smell pervades the place. The decor is weird and overpoweringly exotic.
#The dark runner free
Maisie Maturin should have decided to go to South Africa for the winter, leaving free her nice, warm, fully furnished flat in Kensington - at a remarkable low rent: "I just want someone sympathetic to keep it warm for me."īut from the start the flat is disturbing. So it is understandable that she should want to find her own place, and fortunate that Mr. Lucinda Morland is nineteen, beautiful, bright and - as her parents repeatedly tell themselves - sensible. M 'Dark Runner' is the story of a girl who moves as a temporary tenant into a London flat, only to find herself gradually - almost imperceptibly - drawn into its intrinsic evil.
'Dark Runner' is the story of a girl who moves as a temporary tenant into a London flat, only to find herself gradually - almost imperceptibly - drawn into its intrinsic evil.
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