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Still, Rayne has crafted a memorable novel with the right mix of suspense, horror and emotion.

Well-drawn characters reveal themselves through thoughts and actions more than dialogue, as Rayne favors extensive narration over banter. Rayne writes in a semiformal style that evokes turn-of-the-last-century England and lends the novel an appropriately gothic atmosphere. As Harry's interest in Simone grows, the story branches into several separate tales: in addition to Harry's present-day investigation, there is the story of another set of conjoined twins, Viola and Sorrel Quinton, born in London 80 years earlier Simone's own history with her twin, Sonia, and her mother, Melissa, dating to the 1980s and the parallel plot of a novel that Harry uncovers during his research, The Ivory Gate, published in the 1900s. It concerns two sets of conjoined twins,one set living in the 1900s and the other in the present day,As with all of Sarah Raynes other books,a building is at the. When Harry begins digging into Simone's past, however, he discovers that her twin sister, with whom she once was conjoined, mysteriously vanished years ago. Journalist Harry Fitzglen is unimpressed when he's sent to profile a new London artist named Simone Anderson. Rayne (pseudonym for 'a well-known British author') draws readers into four creepy stories in this hefty suspense thriller. 'Rayne handles a complicated story with many skeins very cleverly.Starred Review. As Harry delves into the violent and terrible history of Mortmain, in an attempt to uncover what happened to Simone and Sonia, and, a century before them, to Viola and Sorrel Quinton, he finds himself drawn into a number of interlocking mysteries, each one more puzzling - and sinister - than the last. Just what did happen to Simone's twin sister who disappeared without trace several years before? And what is the Anderson sisters' connection to another set of twin girls, Viola and Sorrel Quinton, born in London on 1st January 1900?Īll Harry's lines of enquiry seem to lead to the small Shropshire village of Weston Fferna and the imposing ruin of Mortmain House, standing grim and forbidding on the Welsh borders. But once he's met the enigmatic Simone, Harry is intrigued. Journalist Harry Fizglen is sceptical when his editor asks him to investigate the background of Simone Anderson, a new Bloomsbury artist. People died and people disappeared, and although most of us suspected something odd had occurred, no one ever got at the truth.'

The book was first published in January 1st 2004 and the latest edition of the book was published in December 15th 2012 which eliminates all the known issues and printing errors.

The book is perfect for those who wants to read horror, gothic books. 'Something strange happened within that family, Harry. A Dark Dividing is a beautiful novel written by the famous author Sarah Rayne.

A Dark Dividing by Sarah Rayne