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False Light |
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In Caroline Llewellyn's False Light, Dana Morrow is an untenured professor from New York University whose passion for an obscure 19th-century medium, Marianna Hobhouse, plunges her into the world of the eccentric Finn family. The Finns are the descendants of the Hobhouses and carry on a century-long tradition of photography in their Cornish estate, Kerreck Du. Just before Dana arrives to study the Finn's collection of Hobhouse photographs and papers, a series of mysterious deaths threaten to expose the family and its dark past. With its photographic theme, the novel successfully evokes a sense of shifting and eerie light, but it finds its real strength in the depiction of the Cornish countryside. The prose blends Victorian with contemporary tones: "Through half-closed lids, she stared drowsily down the green tunnel. A nimbus of filtered light played over the ivy-smothered trunk of a dying elm. It might almost be the sad ghost of Marianna Hobhouse, she thought, yearning toward her on a current of mutual sympathy that the young medium had believed could resurrect the dead. That current would flow far more strongly here than in dim library stacks and carrels. It was tugging at Dana now." As with A.S. Byatt's Possession and Henry James's The Aspern Papers, False Light transforms the quotidian work of the academic into the rich ground of suspense fiction. --Patrick O'Kelley
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