Katie Butcher

Naturally, I used the free Jet2 flight that I won earlier this year to fly to Alicante so I could visit mum and dad. My sister Claire coordinated a break at the same time. I’ve stuck a few pics up here. They’re mainly snaps taken during geocaching trips in the area around the town that my parents live.

The first first few chapters of this book made it seemed very promising, and I really enjoyed them. They set an intriguing scene of a spooky mansion deep in the wilds of Yorkshire. But as I got more into this book it became more and more peculiar. I found just about all the characters unpleasant and irritating, and most of them were plain nutters. I started longing for there to be somebody normal in the story. Okay yes, this book is different to a lot of the other books around at the moment but if it’s trying to be ranked amongst gothic classics such as ‘Woman in White’ and ‘Wuthering Heights’ it doesn’t cut it at all, I’m afraid. To be honest, I finished this book 2 months ago, and it obviously didn’t strike that much of a chord with me because I can’t actually really remember how it ended. If you don’t mind reading stories about crazy weirdos then you might like this, otherwise, I wouldn’t bother.