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Book length - 440 pages Publisher - Ebury Press Worldwide - www.bookdepository.com Amazon UK - www.amazon.co.uk Amazon US - www.amazon.com I want to thank Anne from randomthingsthroughmyletterbox.blogspot.com for the opportunity to take part in this blog tour and for providing me with a copy of this book for review - this is now one of my favourite books ever so thank you!!!! ABOUT THIS BOOK A house full of history is bound to have secrets... Ponden Hall is a centuries-old house on the Yorkshire moors, a magical place full of stories. It's also where Trudy Heaton grew up. And where she ran away from... Now, after the devastating loss of her husband, she is returning home with her young son, Will, who refuses to believe his father is dead. While Trudy tries to do her best for her son, she must also attempt to build bridges with her eccentric mother. And then there is the Hall itself: fallen into disrepair but generations of lives and loves still echo in its shadows, sometimes even reaching out to the present... MY REVIEW It is rare that anything makes me speechless, truly lost for words, but THE GIRL AT THE WINDOW by Rowan Coleman has done it. I know that's no good when I'm expected to write a review so I will try my best, but this novel is so spectacularly beautiful and emotive that whatever I write will never do it justice so I'm telling you now to buy it and fall in love with it for yourself. Ponden Hall is a beacon on the Yorkshire Moors, a place of history, tragedy, love, and loss and when Trudy loses her husband in a plane crash, she returns to Ponden Hall's welcome embrace with her little boy, Will. Even the presence of her mother whom she has always had a strained relationship with cannot dim the love and warmth she feels among these walls where the Heatons and Brontë sisters lived and breathed. Trudy feels it all at a time when she has been so lost in grief for herself and her son. But when Trudy uncovers a lost letter from the past she becomes determined to find out what happened to the young girl who wrote it but as she gets lost in the mysteries of the past, the past begins to reach out into the present. THE GIRL AT THE WINDOW by Rowan Coleman needs to be pictured beside the word enthralling and captivating in the dictionary because it is that and so much more. Bringing together past and present in such an effortless and fluid way that it took my breath away, I couldn't put this story down as I learned more about Agnes back in the 1600s and then Trudy's life from her childhood to the present day. Ponden Hall is a character completely in its own right, and my favourite I might add, as I got lost in the author's bewitching descriptions of a place that is steeped with history and memories - and you can actually visit this place in real life!! If I ever see a book translated onto my screen, I hope beyond measure that it will be THE GIRL AT THE WINDOW. This is a story that will move you, that will affect you, that will stay with you long after you finish the final page, and it is a story that will inspire you to never give up when you feel like all is lost. THE GIRL AT THE WINDOW by Rowan Coleman is my favourite book from this author so far and it needs to be read by every fiction fan in every country around the world. Simply stunning! AUTHOR BIO Rowan Coleman lives with her husband, and five children in a very full house in Hertfordshire. She juggles writing novels with raising her family which includes a very lively set of toddler twins whose main hobby is going in the opposite directions. When she gets the chance, Rowan enjoys sleeping, sitting and loves watching films; she is also attempting to learn how to bake. Rowan would like to live every day as if she were starring in a musical, although her daughter no longer allows her to sing in public. Despite being dyslexic, Rowan loves writing, and The Memory Book is her eleventh novel. Others include The Accidental Mother, Lessons in Laughing Out Loud and the award-winning Dearest Rose, a novel which lead Rowan to become an active supporter of domestic abuse charity Refuge, donating 100% of royalties from the ebook publication of her novella, Woman Walks Into a Bar, to the charity. Rowan does not have time for ironing. For more information: Website - rowancoleman.co.uk Twitter - twitter.com/rowancoleman Facebook - www.facebook.com/rowancolemanauthor/ Instagram - www.instagram.com/rowanmcoleman/ DON'T FORGET TO CHECK OUT ALL OF THE OTHER STOPS ALONG THE WAY!!
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