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Description
Rumour has it that Becton Manor is haunted. But that’s all just local gossip. Or is it?
1957
Tom Winchett never wanted to move house, and certainly not to a decrepit old Elizabethan manor house inherited from an eccentric uncle. While his parents fret about the work that needs doing to Becton Manor and how they are going to pay for it, Tom starts to notice odd things.
Ghostly faces in windows, mysterious whispers, strange shadowy forms.
And a vicious raven, that will not leave him alone.
1597
The Earl of Becton enters the newly constructed Becton Manor at a time of political upheaval: as a prominent member of Queen Elizabeth’s court entrusted with questioning Catholics suspected of plotting against the Crown, he is in a perilous position. Not least because he and his friends still cling to the old faith.
The departure of his old friend and confidante Father Peters, and the arrival of a stern new tutor for his son, puts in motion a chain of events which will end in a tragedy which will echo down the ages.
The Curse of Becton Manor is a gripping tale of betrayal through the ages, and how the ghosts of English past still haunt all the way to the present day.
John –
I am absolutely stunned that somethings so badly written could have been written in the first place but that it was also edited and proof read and yet still published is an indictment of our publishing world more than it is the illiterate who wrote it. What sort of outfit are ‘Burning Chair’?
Looking at just the first page:
‘According to Uncle Charlie the house was said to be haunted’. According to ( suggesting doubt I presume)… so why the ‘said to be’?
‘The exhaust labouring as it fought its way up the hill’. Exhausts do not labour, engines do that and the syntax suggests the exhaust was struggling up the hill, not the car.
If you must mention the exhaust try this: ‘The labours of the engine were vibrated through the exhaust which left plume after plume of oily smoke … blab la bla…’ Try WRITING!!!
‘Suddenly driving even more slowly’. Anyone see the problem here? One does not suddenly go slowly or be aggressively nice or happily sad!!!
‘Oh my God’ he half muttered’.. Is it an exclamation or not? Stop over writing, it is GCSE stuff!
‘After getting out of the car I stepped out into the sultry still heat’.. Wow!!! AFTER getting out you ‘Stepped out’….
Sultry means hot, it’s entirely the wrong word here anyway . Do you even care Burning Chair? This speaks of you more than of the ‘writer’.
Try this: I stepped from the car into the oppressive heat, unusual for Devon that time of year but all the more suffocating for it….
God help us if this is the state of literature we must now endure. PLEASE ENOUGH!
What is shocking is this inarguable correct assessment (anyone can read the ‘book’) will be blocked.