Green Darkness
by Anya Seton
The story is based around the actual discovery of a skeleton walled up in a fourteenth-century house called Ightham Mote in Kent. This book is about how the skeleton came to be there.
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“I love this book. I was absolutely bowled over by it. There’s a lot of mystery to it. A group of people convene in Kent for a house party in the 1960s. It turns out they are all reincarnations of people who lived in Tudor times, in the reign of Edward VI. You have to work out who was who in a previous life, with all the dramas and tensions of their earlier existence being played out in the modern world. It’s a brilliant book. It’s also got one of the best descriptions of Wyatt’s Rebellion that I’ve ever read in history or fiction.” Read more...
The Best Tudor Historical Fiction
Alison Weir, Historical Novelist
“It’s a time-slip novel with reincarnation as its central theme. A group of people gather in an old farmhouse near historic Midhurst in Sussex for a weekend in the country, but there are chilling undercurrents beneath the social interaction.” Read more...
Alison Weir, Historical Novelist
