Review: Wakenhyrst

Wakenhyrst by Michelle Paver
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Set in the Fens, Wakenhyrst is a dark gothic tale of superstition and witchcraft. Maud is a child of the time, duty bound to a domineering father and kept safe by a loving mother.

Regrettably her mother dies during childbirth and almost guaranteed risk during the Edwardian era and poor Maud is left unprepared for the world, but knows more than her father believes.

This was a time when boys were educated, but intelligent girls were thought unfeminine and an un-marriageable burden.

Maud's Father’s work sends him into a psychotic depression after having discovered a hidden painting of Hell, taken from their local church.

Maud is a sad young woman and all she loves is taken from her in such brutality it really touches your heart. The setting of the dark Fens lends such a feeling of dread to me and Maud’s fathers decent into madness is so compellingly written.......a marvellous piece of story writing.

I would like to thank the Author/the Publishers/NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book for free in exchange for a fair and honest review

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