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The Sister
Poppy Adams

Knopf, 2008 - 288 pages

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4.5/5 - stars - great Gothic Novel

Ginny and Vivien are sisters who have not seen each other in over 50 years. Ginny watches from their childhood home, a mansion now in ruin, as her sister Vivien arrives home after their long separation.
Ginny's life is one of structure, very much an introvert, she rarely goes out, and she carries on her father's work as a lepidopterist (studying moths). Vivien, the outgoing sister, left home years ago for the city. As the sisters talk about the past, they realize their memories of childhood differ in critical and disturbing ways.

The author does a great job creating the eerie mood of the old Gothic mansion. For me, the ending a total surprise, and since that is a good thing, this book is highly recommended.


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Beautiful Book but the ending.....?

I became totally engrossed in this book. Poppy Adams writes beautifully and I was totally hooked on the characters. However, I found the end bizarre and totally disconnected to the story. It came out of left field for me and didn't flow with the story. I guess I was expecting something a little more poetic....I would probably pick it up again in the future though. I came to love the sad and beautiful manor house.


A wonderful, chilling tale.

If you are interested in action/adventure, this is not the book for you. However, if you are interested in a beautifully written story with a chilling ending, you should read this book.

In her debut novel, Poppy Adams has chosen as her narrator, Virginia "Ginny" Stone, seventy years old and obviously unbalanced. Ginny, a former lepidopterist, lives alone in crumbling Bulburrow Court, a mansion that has been in the family for two hundred years. Her only sister, Vivien, left for London fifty years ago; her mother died from an accident some years ago and her father died from dementia in a nursing home. Ginny's insular world is thrown into a state of panic when her sister, Vivien, decides to return to Bulburrow Court to live, a decision that leads to a chilling, haunting ending.

Some people may find the book slow, but I loved the pace and the incredible attention to detail, especially all the wonderfully researched facts about moths.




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Not sorry I read it, but

I can't say I would recommend it to my friends. It took me a while to get into it .... then I found myself skimming some of the text about the moths (although I did find some of it quite interesting, too). All in all I thought it was a decent read and the last 1/3 was actually good, if not, creepy and sad. I think it would be a good book to discuss for a book club because I'm sure there would be lots of different thoughts. The one question I wanted answered (as did the sister) was WHY did Vivi come back after all those years??? Guess we will never know.


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?This lyrical and haunting story of two sisters, their troubling past, and the terrible secrets they each want buried will stay with you long after you close the book.?
?Harlan Coben

?The Sister is a taut, tense tale of the ties that bind?sometimes a little too tightly.?
?Karin Slaughter

From her lookout in the crumbling mansion that was her childhood home, Ginny watches and waits for her younger sister to arrive. Vivien has not set foot in the house since she left nearly fifty years ago; the reclusive Ginny has rarely ventured out, retreating into the precise routines that define her days, carrying on her father?s solitary work studying moths.

As the sisters revisit their shared past, they realize that their recollections differ in essential and unsettling ways. Before long, the deeply buried resentments that have shaped both their lives rise to the surface, and Vivien?s presence threatens to disrupt Ginny?s carefully ordered world.

Told in Ginny?s unforgettable voice, this subtle and chilling debut novel tells an extraordinary story of how families are capable of undoing themselves?especially in the name of love.


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