Book Review: A Place of Secrets by Rachel Hore
As a child, Jude Gower suffered from terrible nightmares, nightmares that featured her running through a forest desperate to find her mother. Years later, her six-year-old niece is having the exact same nightmare, and Jude is desperate to find out how and why. When Jude, a successful auctioneer specialising in 18th century books and manuscripts, is asked to value a collection of manuscripts as well as some scientific objects belonging to 18th century astronomer Anthony Wickham, she can’t wait to begin to decipher the mysterious world he lived in, and escape London for Norfolk to be closer to her sister Claire and niece Summer.
As Jude begins to untangle Anthony Wickhams’s life, she discovers some frightening similarities to the dreams she suffered as a child and with which Summer is now suffering. But what connection does Jude have, if any, to Anthony Wickham and Starbrough Hall where he lived? And who is the mysterious Esther Wickham who appears to be an adopted daughter of Anthony, but isn’t recognised by any of the present Wickham family members?
