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Martha Peake
a novel of the Revolution
By McGrath, Patrick J.
- ISBN
- 978-0-37550-081-7
- Publisher
- New York : Random House, c2000.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 2000
Despite the subtitle, this is not a historical novel in the conventional sense but another of McGrath's (Asylum, The Grotesque) twisted neo-Gothic tales of psychological suspense. Like all good horror stories, it opens on a dark and stormy night with narrator Ambrose Tree sitting by the fire in gloomy Drogo Hall listening to his old uncle William tell the story of Harry Peake and his 16-year-old daughter, Martha. A Cornish ex-smuggler whose spine had been crushed in a tragic...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
