![]() ![]() With her mouth set in a thin line of pinched disapproval, Mrs. Later, at Trespassen House, she's introduced to the officious housekeeper, Mrs. ![]() ![]() Arriving on the train from Brighton to Penzance, Hal meets her new family. While the mystery behind Hal's inheritance lies at the heart of Ware's novel, much of what keeps us turning the pages are Hal's struggles to play the part of dutiful granddaughter. ![]() The money's not hers and she can't claim it, though a little voice tells her: "you could claim this money, you know. Hal is good at reading people and perceptive enough to understand what it was her mother hadn't said: she's most certainly not a Westaway. At night she returns to the chilly darkness of her attic flat in the Marine View Villas where she thinks about her mother, who died two years previously, the growing stack of bills, and the vicious two typed notes that were recently hand-delivered to her. Hal has inherited a substantial estate, though she has no connection to Trespassen House, a rambling country estate in Cornwall and the ancestral home of Hester Westaway.īy day, Hal attends to her booth on Brighton's West Pier, where she reads fortunes with tarot cards. The author fills her narrative with Hal's sudden stay of execution in the form of letter from Penzance solicitor Robert Treswick. It's possible to describe Ware's tale while conveying nothing of this story's steady accumulation of dread. Book review: Ruth Ware's *The Death of Mrs. ![]()
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