The Daughters of Foxcote Manor (Wheeler Publishing Large Print Hardcover)

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The characters were so well drawn. My heart was with Rita. The relationships are just as well developed - complicated, intricate and entwined. The plotting is so imaginative and unique. And the settings will draw the reader in. For me, it was the forest that called. Sylvie Broom (present day) – is a forty-six year old make-up artist who has recently moved out of the family home after tiring of her husband’s many infidelities. Sylvie is the mother of nineteen year old Annie – a girl who is struggling with the separation of her parents.

Joe Nuthin’s Guide to Life” by Helen Fisher – Book Review @RandomTTours #BlogTour #BookReview @simonschusterUK #JoeNuthinsGuideToLife @HFisherAuthor November 20, 2023 Eve Chase’s novels are about glamorous families with tragic pasts, set in wonderful locations. Her writing is rich and her stories full of dreamy mystery….This gorgeous meditation on motherhood is one of my favourite reads so far this year' -Wendy Holden, Daily MailI just love Eve Chase’s lyrical writing and evocative sense of place. The Glass Houseis her best yet, a glorious tangle of family secrets, set deep in the woods of Foxcote Manor. A treat - Louise Candlish, author Our House Fourteen months ago, Rita had never been to London. But she'd dreamed of it longingly, the Rita she might be there, far away from Torquay, everything that had happened. And the metropolitan family-just like the Darlings in Peter Pan-who'd embrace her as their own. They'd live in a tall warm house that didn't have a coin-gobbling electricity meter, like Nan's bungalow did. She'd get a bedroom of her own, with a desk and a shelf, perhaps a view of the churning, thrilling city. And the mother she worked for would be . . . well, perfect. Someone delicate and kind and soft. Cultured. With tiny earlobes and fluttery birdlike hands. Like her own mother, whom Rita hazily remembered. Everything she'd lost in the accident. And that a bit of her kept searching for. Chase parcels out her clues slowly, without a hint of showiness. In the end, ‘The Daughters of Foxcote Manor’ is not really about a murder, or a creepy house, but about families — the ones we’re born into, the ones we make and especially the ones we flee.” New YorkTimes The alternating storyline features a woman named Sylvie who is dealing with drama with her daughter and an unexpected accident with her mother. Sylvie is trying to get past her divorce and help her daughter navigate a life changing event. Chapters are divided between three narrators: Rita, Sylvie, and Hera Harrington. It’s not clear for some time how these stories relate, but once they all come together, they make for a compelling narrative.

Devilishly atmospheric…Chase builds a narrative laden with twists rendered so cleverly that readers likely will not foresee them. She does so with deeply formed characters, a setting guaranteed to evoke unease and prose that amplifies the ominous events.But Chase does not stop with an engaging tale. Her portrait of mothers and daughters…delves intensely into connections that can be as fraught as those between fathers and sons.With profound but restrained passion typical of Britons, Chase creates a rewarding, disturbing tale of transgressions of commission and omission, with a measure of redemption born of her innate decency and empathy.” — Richmond Times-Dispatch Forget about solving all these crimes; the signal triumph here is (spoiler) the heroine’s survival. But the baby never heard Rita’s giggle. Or anyone else’s. She’s a tiny ghost doll, stiff, white, frozen in time, a presence constantly felt but never, God forbid, mentioned. And Rita . . . well, what is she now? Not just the fun young nanny. And she’s got more than what they’ll eat for tea weighing on her mind.With likable characters and an intriguing mystery created by dark family secrets, this novel has ascertained that the author is one who is an ‘auto-read’ for me. I really enjoyed this book. Eve Chase’s writing style drew me in from the beginning. What I loved most was that I was able to visualize the characters, hear the noises of the forest that surrounds Foxcote, and feel the sense of foreboding that surrounds Foxcote manor. Chase brings this story to life, especially through the characters and the forest. The first concerned the baby which did not survive childbirth. The second was a destructive fire which engulfed a sizeable portion of the great house they lived in. We find out that Rita was raised by her grandmother in a tiny, cramped council bungalow. Her parents had died in some tragedy that was as of yet unrevealed at this point in the story. And even at this very early stage, Eve Chase is “painting” very vivid word pictures. The bungalow itself, she tells us, features a “coin gobbling” electricity meter, (I love it!) We also learn that Rita and her Nan lived in a town named Torquay, and despite the fact that Rita adored her grandmother, she generally associates her early years in this town with feelings of loneliness and a small town kind of “smallness” that she found very restricting to her aspirations and the life she wanted to live as an adult. Eve Chase is an extraordinary writer and The Daughters of Foxcote Manor is absolutely her best yet. No one creates families as complex, loveable and utterly believable as Chase and she is the master of the dual time frame narrative.”