![]() Show More only to find a strange hybrid of Gothic parody and twee romance. I’m glad I saved Touch Not the Cat for nearly last among Mary Stewart’s novels to read in my opinion it’s one of her best. It’s very cleverly done and not at all expected. No Mary Stewart novel would be complete without a mystery part of the mystery lies in the supernatural aspect of the story, while another mystery lies in the truth behind Bryony’s father’s death, and the mysterious warning he left behind him. I like how we don’t know for certain who this “friend” is, and are left guessing at his identity throughout the book. I rolled my eyes at the opening line of the novel (“My lover came to me on the last night of April, with a message and a warning that sent me home to him”), thinking that the novel was going to go overboard on the psychic thing but Mary Stewart makes her reader feel as though this psychic element is completely normal. ![]() She has a “relationship” with a spirit who speaks to her in a kind of psychic way. ![]() ![]() ![]() When her father is killed in a hit-and-run accident, she returns to England from her temporary home in Madeira. It’s a lot more mature than some of her other books.īryony Ashley grew up at Ashley Court, ancestral home of a family that dates back to Norman times. ![]()
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