Bellman & Black

A Ghost Story

by

328 pages

English language

Published Sept. 12, 2013

ISBN:
978-1-4767-1195-9
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OCLC Number:
858829847

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5 stars (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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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.

Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Nineteenth century
  • Partnership
  • Cruelty
  • Funeral rites and ceremonies