The writing makes the book feel haunted and alive, it brings an atmosphere to you that you cannot shake. The Vanishing Of Audrey Wilde is utter bliss: lyrical, enchanting and bewitching with flavours of the Mitford sisters and I Capture The Castle which add to the charm.

Book Review: The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde by Eve Chase Book Review: The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde by Eve Chase

Eve Chase deals with loss and grief in both timelines of The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde; in the past, we see parents grieving their missing daughter, Audrey, with Sybil and Perry’s coping mechanisms polar opposites. I found this symmetry between the sisters’ relationships and those of the mothers and daughters in both past and present was something that worked well and helped to give a sense of balance to The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde. Eve Chase is the author of Black Rabbit Hall and The Wildling Sisters, and the pseudonym of journalist and novelist Polly Williams. The house was at the centre of a deliciously hidden and evocative time - the secret which broke that all apart, and made the house what it is today.Both the dead daughter (and cousin) from the past and the dead mother in the present-day are hard acts to follow; paragons of virtue by which everyone else is measured, with their youth and beauty preserved forever in photographs. I could not put this book down; I was in a race to get to the end, although I didn’t want it to end. In 1959, teenager Margot and her three sisters arrive at Applecote to find their aunt and uncle still struggling after the disappearance of their daughter Audrey five years before. Fifty years later, with the memory of her widower husband’s wife constantly surrounding her, Jesse is ready to escape the city. Dual time-line stories are one of my favorite, but this one lacked a little something in the present story.

The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde / The Wildling Sisters The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde / The Wildling Sisters

That this is his second marriage, yes, but it is her first, her only, and she wants it to have its own unique character. Trying to carve out her own identity as a new mother and wife, she increasingly compares herself to her predecessor, always selling herself short.It was unsettling for all four sisters, and because the summer was warm they were able to spend much of their time outside, That was how they came to meet Tom and Harry Gore, whose family spent their summers at the neighbouring Coniston Place. The Wilde sisters (or “Wildlings”) make for a very colourful and compelling bunch to lead you into their world, and paired with the atmospheric setting of Applecote Manor, it contained everything I love in a book. None of that would be simple, nothing really went to plan, and when she learned the history of her new home Jessie began to question whether she had really done the right thing for her family …. Lorna is enchanted by Black Rabbit Hall, knowing from the beginning this is where she’d like to be married. This is one of those books I was dying to read, but it just kept slipping down the TBR pile until I gradually lost track of it.