The Witch of Exmoor
£10.74
Drabble can do better - Freda Haxby is an eccentric, elderly writer who moves out of the family home to set herself up miles from her children and their families in an old ramshackle establishment on Exmoor. When she meets a suspicious death all their middle class lives come under scrutiny. I do not feel that this is Drabble s best work as the characters do not come alive and as a murder mystery the plot seems rather sparse.
Disappointing - Disappointing. Drabble the social commentator wins out over Drabble the novelist, in this tale of elderly, eccentric writer Freda Haxby who turns her back on her family and their expectations to live out her days in a crumbling mansion on the coast. The characters are little more than mouthpieces for a broad span of educated, middle-class opinion and like Freda herself, never manage to come alive or engage the reader s sympathies. One leaves them to their fate without a backward glance.
A highly intresting book from a very talented author - To her family Frieda is know to only care for herself and her work. so when Ben goes to stay with her he brings out the light in her that no onwe else has ever seen before. So while her family worries about her will and her house falling into the sea Ben consintrates on seeing the true frieda in her own very special world which is full of talent an daffection. which