Grange House

- Illustrations : Non - Publisher's note :In 1896, when Maisie Thomas turns 17, her annual summer visit to a hotel on the coast of Maine marks a turning point - a series of ghostly incidents casts a shadow over Maisie's summer and her future, as she considers the attentions of two young men. Rich with details of a bygone era, Grange House is a page-turning novel of literary suspense and romance.

"A well-crafted first novel....[D]espite the sometimes ponderous prose, this well-constructed, absorbing, atmospheric tale will keep you reading." - Kirkus, 04/15/2000 "In...Sarah Blake's compelling and highly accomplished first novel, storytelling has a power akin to exorcism and love is a fate haunted by the past. With rich, meticulous detail and a poet's refined yet sensuous ear for language, Blake...has composed a novel that manages to partake of all the conventions of Victorian sensibility while maintaining a contemporary intelligence and subtle wit." - Chicago Tribune Books, 08/13/2000 "Blake, who has a doctorate in Victorian literature, has plundered all the best elements of her favored genre: ghostly apparitions, shameful secrets..., an intelligent heroine who resists...the marriage plot. And while it's hard not to wrinkle your nose at the first seemingly stagy whiffs of Victoriana, Blake draws nicely on her familiarity with the era....The secret that is revealed at the novel's close is a humdinger...." - New York Times Book Review, 08/20/2000