The Black Feathers set in Yorkshire – Rebecca Netley

Submitted: 17th October 2023

The Black Feathers set in Yorkshire – Rebecca Netley

Gothic fans should rejoice at this book. It’s got everything you need for a gothic and ghostly fest but it also has that magic of something very special indeed.

You need to read this book – you have to experience this book. Trust me. You will not regret it.

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Rebecca Netley The Black Feathers

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Destination : Yorkshire

Author guide: Rebecca Netley

Genre: historical , ghostly, gothic

Food and drink to accompany: nothing you’ll be holding your breath for most of it

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A novel to transport you to a haunting manor house in Yorkshire

This gave me vibes of Rebecca and Jane Eyre from the off so you can imagine my delight at the first page! The Black Feathers takes us to the remote and wild Yorkshire Moors and has names like Stonehouse and Guardbridge in the story so all the feels are there from the off. I had great expectations of this (incidentally one of the best moors scenes in fiction) and I was not disappointed.

The moors scenes in this novel were superb – vast, isolated and wild moors hiding all manner of secrets and ghosts. You feel the wind, the rain, the desolation and utter fear the characters have when going about their daily business.

Annie marries Edward Stonehouse and comes to live with him on the moors. They have a son but she knows that he has been married before. His late wife and a child handing out black feathers will be crucial to her understanding just what she has got herself involved in….

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Honestly, from the start, this novel delivers. There’s a fog which descends as you read and some of the best characters I have met for a long time in a book – Edward is a strange one – her sister in law stranger still. And to think I have strange hobbies to some (crafting and maps), I have nothing on this woman!

The central mystery about the strange house, its past and the black feathers that portend something very sad indeed…..got me totally invested in every way possible. So much so, that as I was reading one day, it was raining and windy and a black feather floated past my window and got stuck in the gutter. Well, to say I nearly fell out of my chair is an understatement. This book gets in your head and frightens the bejesus out of you. I absolutely loved it!

Rebecca Netley does gothic and chilling tones very well indeed. It’s all so authentically chilling that she probably writes in a candlelit room with a black feather quill..

Highly recommended!