This was a very good read for me. I did get a little frustrated with Ivy Radcliffe in some places in the book.
Ivy learns that she's in heir to this Abbey in Yorkshire. She's never had anything like this happen to her before. She signs the papers and heads off to her new home. She arrives there thinking that this could change her life. But, when she meets the help that have been the care takers of the house for a long time. She notices that Mrs. Hewitt doesn't seem to like her much. The driver, Ralph picks her ups at the train station.
The Abbey is very old and Ivy can tell by what she's noticing while she walking to her room. It's called the blue room and that because everything in the room is blue. She then meets Agnes who's quite young and seems very shy. After getting settled and changing her clothes. She gets Mrs. Hewitt to show her around. There are rooms in the Abbey that are locked Mrs. Hewitt tells her. Partly because they don't use them much. Ivy, doesn't understand why but, she lets it go.
Later on that evening Ivy decides she's going to look around some on her own after she eats her dinner. Going to a few of the doors down the hall and some of the doors are locked. She heads downstairs and checks out a few more areas of the Abbey. There were double doors to a big room on the other side of them. She does decide to wait tell morning and ask Mrs. Hewitt to open them.
In the morning after breakfast, Ivy decides to go into town and look around. She wants some new books. In a book store she meets Arthur. He seems very nice. After talking for a few minutes, she heads for home. Later on in the even after settling down in a chair to do some reading, something ends up flying off her dresser onto the floor. What the heck, Ivy says.
That's the first thing that ends up happening. Other things start to really scare her. Are there ghosts in this Abbey. Another thing that starts to happen is she is not remembering things. She keeps asking about things and when she wakes up the next morning she can't remember.
In the morning Ivy goes downstairs and asks Mrs. Hewitt to unlock the double doors. On the other side was a huge library and the perfect Ivy thought. She loved books. Mrs. Hewitt didn't look happy. Ivy began to look around and after awhile Mrs. Hewitt left. She Had been in there for a few hours and she started to get a read bad headache.
Every time she had spent time in that library, she would get headaches. Something was going on and because in the mornings she couldn't remember things. It made her seem like she was loosing her mind.
I'm not going to give away the ending. It was a fairly fast paste read. Pick it up if you want to try it. You may just like it.
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