Bellman and Black - Rambling Readers

No cover — Diane Setterfield: Bellman and Black (2013, Bond Street Books)

Published Oct. 15, 2013 by Bond Street Books.

ISBN:: 978-0-385-67950-3

(1 review)

Killing a bird with his slingshot as a boy, William Bellman grows up a wealthy family man unaware of how his act of childhood cruelty will have terrible consequences until a wrenching tragedy compels him to enter into a macabre bargain with a stranger in black.

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Leaf 🍂 reviewed Bellman & Black by Diane Setterfield

Review of 'Bellman & Black' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

I can see where folks expecting something akin to 'The Thirteenth Tale' would be disappointed.

This is more a treat for us genre fans, enjoyers of novels like 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell' or 'The Night Circus'. It's rooks and Victorian England and magical revenges and mysterious agreements fiction. It's poignant and researched and brief.

And it has corvids enough to please me greatly.