Black Rabbit Hall by Eve Chase
Black Rabbit Hall was a spur of the moment reading choice for me, and I buzzed through it in a few days (even though I've had it checked out of the library for almost 3 weeks). My "due back" notification had everything to do with my rush to read this, but I'm so glad I didn't just return it unread to the library. It was just what I needed to read this week. This is a novel told in two voices: Amber Alton, a fifteen year old girl in 1968; and Lorna Dunaway, over thirty years later. Amber's family owns Black Rabbit Hall in Cornwall, and the family spends holidays there. Amber's parents are madly in love, and she has a twin brother Toby, a younger brother Barney, and a little sister named Kitty. They are a very happy family, and the heart of the family is Amber's mother, Nancy. There's something about Black Rabbit Hall that speaks to Amber and her whole family. It's wild, it's crumbling; it's full of creaks and groans and sits ...