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The Stopped Heart

por Julie Myerson

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Internationally bestselling author Julie Myerson's beautifully written, yet deeply chilling, novel of psychological suspense explores the tragediesâ??past and presentâ??haunting a picturesque country cottage.

Mary Coles and her husband, Graham, have just moved to a cottage on the edge of a small village. The house hasn't been lived in for years, but they are drawn to its original features and surprisingly large garden, which stretches down into a beautiful apple orchard. It's idyllic, remote, picturesque: exactly what they need to put the horror of the past behind them.
One hundred and fifty years earlier, a huge oak tree was felled in front of the cottage during a raging storm. Beneath it lies a young man with a shock of red hair, presumed deadâ??surely no one could survive such an accident. But the red-haired man is alive, and after a brief convalescence is taken in by the family living in the cottage and put to work in the fields. The children all love him, but the eldest daughter, Eliza, has her reservations. There's something about the red-haired man that sits ill with her. A presence. An evil.
Back in the present, weeks after moving to the cottage and still drowning beneath the weight of insurmountable grief, Mary Coles starts to sense there's something in the house. Children's whispers, footsteps from above, half-caught glimpses of figures in the garden. A young man with a shock of red hair wandering through the orchard.
Has Mary's grief turned to madness? Or have the events that took place so long ago finally come back to haunt her
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Great as a spooky ghost story, but completely unsatisfying ending. ( )
  IVLeafClover | Jun 21, 2022 |
While the book succeeds thoroughly in terms of atmosphere, and the characters are reasonably interesting, it strikes me as repetitious. The scenes between Eliza/James and Mary/Eddie are like watching Groundhog Day. ( )
  KateFinney | Jul 10, 2021 |
Reviewers giving this novel 5 stars need to start reading a LOT more books.

Child murder and abuse, con artists, ghosts, and grief, grief, grief.

In two time periods.

This book is bleak, bleak, bleak. ( )
  ChayaLovesToRead | Apr 19, 2020 |
This is an absolutely absorbing novel featuring two families living in the same rural Suffolk cottage in a small village, but over a century apart. Their stories are intertwined throughout and there are disturbing parallels in the characters and events experienced by the families. The chilling atmosphere of the cottage is contrasted with the hot summers in which the stories are set and Julie Myerson’s acute writing takes you to the heart of the feelings of Eliza in the past and Mary in the present. Myerson exquisitely explores the threatening aura of love, loss and impending evil that haunts both families and hints that there may be some things that cannot be explained rationally. It makes for an enthralling and affecting read.
  camharlow2 | Sep 6, 2018 |
The Stopped Heart by Julie Myerson
3 Stars

It was a very good story...well written and well told... however the constant switching from past to present was a bit annoying. I love supernatural, physiological suspense stories and this one was building to a stunning conclusion...but then it was like the door closed and someone said "That's all folks." We never found out what actually happened to the villain or what the future was to hold for the couple or the family in the past. That was disappointing and it lost the book half a star. Still very worth the reading time. ( )
  Carol420 | Jun 7, 2017 |
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Fantasy. Fiction. Thriller. Historical Fiction. HTML:

Internationally bestselling author Julie Myerson's beautifully written, yet deeply chilling, novel of psychological suspense explores the tragediesâ??past and presentâ??haunting a picturesque country cottage.

Mary Coles and her husband, Graham, have just moved to a cottage on the edge of a small village. The house hasn't been lived in for years, but they are drawn to its original features and surprisingly large garden, which stretches down into a beautiful apple orchard. It's idyllic, remote, picturesque: exactly what they need to put the horror of the past behind them.
One hundred and fifty years earlier, a huge oak tree was felled in front of the cottage during a raging storm. Beneath it lies a young man with a shock of red hair, presumed deadâ??surely no one could survive such an accident. But the red-haired man is alive, and after a brief convalescence is taken in by the family living in the cottage and put to work in the fields. The children all love him, but the eldest daughter, Eliza, has her reservations. There's something about the red-haired man that sits ill with her. A presence. An evil.
Back in the present, weeks after moving to the cottage and still drowning beneath the weight of insurmountable grief, Mary Coles starts to sense there's something in the house. Children's whispers, footsteps from above, half-caught glimpses of figures in the garden. A young man with a shock of red hair wandering through the orchard.
Has Mary's grief turned to madness? Or have the events that took place so long ago finally come back to haunt her

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