Cant Wait Wednesdays : THE DEATH OF JANE LAWRENCE BY CAITLIN STARLING

Can't-Wait Wednesday is hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings and gives us a chance to highlight books we are patiently waiting to fill up our TBRs with.

I have been so busy that I totally forgot it was Wednesday so I am getting a bit of a late start on things today. But I am ready to tell you all about the book I am waiting on....

Ever since I first read Dracula, Dorian Gray, or any Edgar Allan Poe, I have been a huge fan of Gothic Literature. I guess it was my first jump into horror, but it also led me to the Poetry of Percy Shelley and Lord Byron, so I guess you could say it was my gateway drug to reading.

My father read me bedtime stories when he was home ( he was a Naval man and aboard a ship about 9 months out of the year ) but he never read me bedtime stories most people were read, he read me things like MacBeth or the people I mentioned above. He had a great love of classic literature and I guess he felt that was what I needed to hear. Don't get me wrong, I had my fair share of Winnie The Pooh and Peter Rabbit, my mother had to read me stories when my dad was out to sea, but it was always those times with my dad I remember and cherish to this day. 

The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling seems to be the perfect gothic story, even the beautiful cover has a creepy tone to it...

SUMMARY

Practical, unassuming Jane Shoringfield has done the calculations and decided that the most secure path forward is this: a husband, in a marriage of convenience, who will allow her to remain independent and occupied with meaningful work. Her first choice, the dashing but reclusive doctor Augustine Lawrence, agrees to her proposal with only one condition: that she must never visit Lindridge Hall, his crumbling family manor outside of town. Yet on their wedding night, an accident strands her at his door in a pitch-black rainstorm, and she finds him changed. Gone is the bold, courageous surgeon, and in his place is a terrified, paranoid man—one who cannot tell reality from nightmare, and fears Jane is an apparition, come to haunt him.

By morning, Augustine is himself again, but Jane knows something is deeply wrong at Lindridge Hall, and with the man, she has so hastily bound her safety too. Set in a dark-mirror version of post-war England, Starling crafts a new kind of gothic horror from the bones of the beloved canon. This Crimson Peak-inspired story assembles, then upends, every expectation set in place by Shirley Jackson and Rebecca, and will leave readers shaken, desperate to begin again as soon as they are finished. 

Hardcover, 368 pages

Expected publication: October 5th, 2021 by St. Martin's Press

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