![]() It’s not the doll she wanted, though, and she smashes it against the wall in a fit of rage. Trouble arrives on Leonora’s birthday, when Kestrel, in an attempt to grant her niece’s dearest wish, gifts her a china doll. ‘Dolly’ finds Edward Cayley remembering a childhood summer at Iyot Lock, a large old house in the English Fens, with his spoilt and wicked cousin, Leonora, and their aunt Kestrel. The four other short novels that comprise the collection - each of which has been published by Profile in stand-alone editions over the past five years - can’t quite hit the same stellar heights, but still offer much in the way of worthwhile reading. Thoroughly spine-chilling, perfectly paced, and evoking such genre masterpieces as The Turn of the Screw and The Hound of the Baskervilles, and making exquisite use of setting and mood, it is this volume’s obvious highlight. The locals are reluctant to speak of what he saw, though there is clearly a story to be told. ![]() ![]() At the funeral, he’d glimpsed a woman dressed in black. ![]()
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