Before trust has had time to take root, mistrust festers.
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Expectations are upped, jealousies ignite and assumptions grow as each woman fights for survival under a rapidly changing battleground. They need each other, but living under the same roof is untenable.
REVIEW: THE DARKENING HOUR BY PENNY HANCOCK - MONIQUE MULLIGAN
Who will snap under pressure? What lengths will they go to hold onto their sense of self? And who can they trust, if not each other? Can I trust her? While the story examines the relationship between the women and plays on the tension created by their reactions to each other, it also raises an issue I knew nothing about until I read this book, that of modern-day migrant domestic servitude in Britain.
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This case of truth imitating fiction made her feel uncomfortable, but also prompted questions about the role of fiction. I love a good awareness-raising story and The Darkening Hour certainly did that, without appearing moralistic or having an overly journalistic tone , but for me the story comes first.
I have to want to read it; without the desire to turn the pages, there is no point.
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What do you think? Poor old deluded Dora is a monumental fuck-up, to be sure. Mona is a more ambiguous figure, and her hopes of finding her vanished husband in the city, and to send money home to her poor family, gives her story drive.
But some interesting hard-edges to her character, like stealing items from her employer, sort of fade away as she begins to become more of a victim within the story. The Darkening Hour is a slow burn.
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But the book works really well as a claustrophobic study of how a nice middle-class lady can begin to cross invisible lines and behave in an unspeakable way. Physical description and dialogue are primary ways we get to know the characters in novels, but you can also get inside their heads in other ways, and Hancock accumulates detail really well.
So Theodora lives in an elegant townhouse on a Georgian street surrounded by tower blocks and estates, giving a sense of her isolation. Her home is narrow and claustrophobic and, before the arrival of Mona, hopelessly untidy. Even her surname reflects an inherent sense of privilege.
The Darkening Hour – Penny Hancock
Penny Hancock writes more about the inspiration for The Darkening Hour on her website — check that out. And remember, of course, you can scroll down to her Intel Interview below or, tell you what, you can click to it here. Crimethrillerfella review It's all about power!! You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email.