The Ghost Orchid: A Novel
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Ms. Goodman's best so far !
I have been a huge fan of Carol Goodman's books, ever since I inhaled "The Lake of Dead Languages". Her writing style, her storytelling ability and her sense of "place" when telling a story are unsurpassed.Her newest book did not disappoint me. It was filled with intrigue, questions, and a deep connection to the upstate New York region she has so captured. The characters were multi-dimensional, and I felt as if I had gotten to each of them.My only disappointment was not wanting the book to end ! It is an excellent read, and I am certain fans of her earlier works will find it engrossing.
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Give us those ghosts every time!
Good night! Ms. Goodman has a triumph here. A real good old-fashioned leave-the-bathroom-light-on all nighter of a ghost story. The author's vivid description fits the late-19th century setting and provides the atmosphere without distracting the reader. The two simultaneous plots, one running in 1893 and one in the present, intertwine perfectly. Fans of Jodi Picoult's Second Glance and Sarah Blake's Grange House and Beth Gutcheon's More than You Know are going to love this one. And the action keeps right on rolling. Carol Goodman must have had an out-of-body experience, because the ones that she describes Corinth Blackwell having are one hundred percent accurate. This is going to be one of my top books of the year. Ms. Goodman's husband, who wrote the poetry for the character of Zalman, did a great job as well. As a minor point, the cover is one of the most beautiful I've seen, I may look for the photo to purchase. If you liked The Lake of Dead Languages, you've seen nothing at all...
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Product Description
In her enthralling novels of literary suspense, Carol Goodman writes stories that resonate with emotion set in lush landscapes that entice the senses. Now, with The Ghost Orchid, a narrative that seamlessly weaves together the past and the present, Goodman creates her most lyrical and haunting work to date.
For more than one hundred years, creative souls have traveled to Upstate New York to work under the captivating spell of the Bosco estate. Cradled in silence, inspired by the rough beauty of overgrown gardens and crumbling statuary, these chosen few fashion masterworks–and have cemented Bosco’s reputation as a premier artists’ colony. This season, five talented artists-in-residence find themselves drawn to the history of Bosco, from the extensive network of fountains that were once its centerpiece but have long since run dry to the story of its enigmatic founder, Aurora Latham, and the series of tragic events that occurred more than a century ago.
Ellis Brooks, a first-time novelist, has come to Bosco to write a book based on Aurora and the infamous summer of 1893, when wealthy, powerful Milo Latham brought the notorious medium Corinth Blackwell to the estate to help his wife contact three of the couple’s children, lost the winter before in a diphtheria epidemic. But when a séance turned deadly, Corinth and her alleged accomplice, Tom Quinn, disappeared, taking with them the Lathams’ only surviving child.
The more time she spends at Bosco, the more Ellis becomes convinced that there is an even darker, more sinister end to the story. And she’s not alone: biographer Bethesda Graham uncovers stunning revelations about Milo and Corinth; landscape architect David Fox discovers a series of hidden tunnels underneath the gardens; poet Zalman Bronsky hears the long-dry fountain’s waters beckoning him; and novelist Nat Loomis feels something lingering just out of reach.
After a bizarre series of accidents befalls them, the group cannot deny the connections between the long ago and now, the living and the dead . . . as Ellis realizes that the tangled truth may ensnare them all in its cool embrace.
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The Best of Ms. Goodman
Admittedly, Carol Goodman is not an author to whom I would naturally gravitate; however, life's encounters sometimes change things. I happened to be working with Ms. Goodman's brother the year her first novel came out. I had the opportunity to meet her and read her first novel. In the years since, I have continued to read her novels and, though I might not put them in the pantheon of greatness, I have always enjoyed them. Her latest novel, The Ghost Orchid, is no exception.In fact, I would say that this novel is best she has written. Her skill with prose has certainly improved with each novel and her deft handling of two time periods which she weaves together to tell a single story is impressive. I would say that it was this technique that really drew me into her tale which would otherwise have held much less interest for me.In this novel Ellis Brooks goes to a writers' retreat at an estate called Bosco in upstate New York. As she researches and writes...
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