Book - Widow's Walk

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Widow's Walk
B. Scott Christmas
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A haunting story with a wartime setting in the 1940's, "Widow's Walk" tells the tale of Mary Andrews, a bright, but solitary girl who finds herself detached from her classmates at the Helen Rogers Bromley School For Young Women.

Mary's lover, James Kirby, is a military aviator flying in battle in the skies over North Africa. While her classmates gossip and pass along ghost stories about their school building, the bookish Mary pines for her pilot and fears for his safety.

After a terrifying experience walking in the serene beauty of a local cemetery, Mary returns to find a family member waiting for her, bearing news of James. Has he been discharged? Is he returning home to her? Or is the news much more sinister?

Written with Christmas's characteristic attention to detail, subtle prose, and vivid description, "Widow's Walk" is a moving story that will stay with you long after you've read the last page.

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I got this as a free book on Amazon. I guess I didn't read the specs well and I hadn't realized that this was such a short book. Finished the book in less than an hour, while sitting in bed.

This was a pretty dark bedtime story (as I read this right before bed). I can't comment much as this would give the book away...

The pace was good, prose was nice, the only downside was it was really too short.