· The Story Keeper is a sublime read, with character, attention to detail, and a story that draws you in and commands your attention. Anna Mazzola gives us more than just great fiction, she details the period where communities were practically destroyed in the name of money and with them the cultural and social traditions; many went to Canada and America to start new www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 4 mins. · Anna Mazzola’s second novel The Story Keeper is inspired by the West Ham vanishings: the unexplained disappearance of a number of children and young adults from London’s East End in the s and s. The story keeper. Mazzola, Anna, author. Audrey Hart is on the Isle of Skye to collect the word-of-mouth folk tales of the people and communities around her. It is , the Highland Clearances have left devastation and poverty, and the crofters are suspicious and hostile, claiming they no longer know their stories. Then Audrey discovers the 4/5(3).
With The Story Keeper Anna Mazzola expertly weaves a chilling web of menace and intrigue that utterly ensnared and beguiled me. Beautifully written and compelling. I was glued to every page -- Rowan Coleman The Story Keeper paints a beautiful but sinister picture of an isolated island community. Set against a complex and convincing historical. Anna Mazzola is a writer of historical crime fiction and, probably due to some fault of her parents, is drawn to peculiar and dark historical subjects. Her debut novel, The Unseeing, was published to critical acclaim in Her second novel, The Story Keeper, a gothic tale about a collector of folklore and missing girls on 19th century Skye, was published in July Inspired by a real life case of disappearing girls, The Story Keeper is an evocatively written period mystery novel, interweaving evocative folk tales and suffusing each chapter with a sense of tradition and whimsy. Anna Mazzola creates a gothic atmosphere that, like a Brothers Grimm fairy tale, is at once beautiful and ominous.
The Story Keeper by Anna Mazzola is published by Tinder Press, a Headline imprint. It’s available as an audiobook and an ebook and in hardback from Thursday (26th July). You can find it at Amazon UK, Audible UK, Foyles, Hive (supporting your local independent bookshop), Waterstones or Wordery. Her second novel, The Story Keeper, will be published this July. It follows a folklorist’s assistant as she searches out dark fairytales and stolen girls on the Isle of Skye in As well as novels, Anna writes short stories, and she is currently working on a sitcom. She also blogs for The History Girls. The Story Keeper. A dark tale of folklore and disappearances on the Isle of Skye. Audrey Hart travels to Skye and to the mansion of a reclusive folklorist to collect the folk and fairy tales of the local people. It is , the Highland Clearances have left devastation and poverty, and the crofters are suspicious and hostile, claiming they no longer know their stories.
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