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The Cottage on Winter Moss: A dual timeline novel with a literary twist
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About The Cottage On Winter Moss: A Dual Timeline Novel
Product Description Burned-out author Dee needs fresh inspiration. Impetuously, she abandons London and her good-for-nothing boyfriend to go wherever her literary quest takes her. Journey’s end is a remote village on the shores of a wild estuary, overshadowed by a ruined pele tower. She rents Winter Cottage and waits for a story to emerge.The bleak beauty of the whispering dunes, the jacquard of colour and texture of the marsh and a romantic tree in a secluded glade—The Trysting Tree—all seduce Dee. Nevertheless, the secretive behaviour of a handsome neighbour, lights across the marsh, a spurious squire and a bizarre, moonlit encounter all suggest there is something odd afoot.Local gossip and crumbling graveyard inscriptions give Dee the opening she needs. She begins to weave hints about the tragic history of a local family, feuding brothers and a fatal fire into a sweeping historical saga. Her characters clamour for a voice as the tale spools effortlessly onto the page—demanding to be told. Dee feels more like its instrument than its instigator.As she becomes enmeshed in the local community, Dee is startled to find her fiction unnervingly confirmed by fact, her history still resonating in the present-day.Is she being guided by echoes of the past? Review This novel feels like a warm comfort blanket.I want to go and find this village, I want to know more about these well defined characters.The characters and their predicaments are believable, which is paramount in my estimation, and the descriptions are so well-wrought that I didn't need pictures to envision the world they inhabited. There is a touch of the preternatural to the story, just enough to pique interest without forcing one to abandon their sense of reality. Excellent book, highly recommended.Allie Cresswell sensitively evokes a sense of place through her beautiful descriptions of nature and landscape. She lifts rainy winter days on the Cumbrian seacoast into the realms of poetry.The [novel within-a-novel] comes alive in more ways than one; the secrets, loves, and losses of the past reverberate in the present day and collide with [present day.]I particularly loved Cresswell's descriptions of Dee's creative process; the hours spent hunched over the keyboard, losing all track of time, the fitful excursions to wander around the beach and the woods. Becoming a near-hermit in an old cottage on the seacoast would be a dream come true for many writers, but Dee also struggles with loneliness and the sadness of being alienated from a beloved brother.Cresswell skillfully blurs the lines between fiction and reality with a touch of the supernatural. Fiction becomes real life and real life feels like fiction. This is a big, complicated story but it is so well woven together. A story to be savoured while curled up under a crocheted blanket with a hot beverage, preferably on a rainy day.
