![]() ![]() I enjoy reading novels written in the first person. I got sucked into the novel and effortlessly carried along. I thought her voice was very strong and intimate. The Somnambulist is narrated mostly in the first person from Phoebe’s point of view. ![]() Fox’s second novel is also at the library. ![]() I got the impression it was a Victorian ghost story. I picked it up at the library because the blurb implied it was supernatural fiction. She awakes to hear sobbing in the night and it soon becomes clear that she has not been chosen to work there by chance. Leaving the hustle of London’s East End, Phoebe finds herself unnerved by her new surroundings. Mr Samuels offers her the job of companion to his reclusive wife at Dinwood Court – a grand country house that may well be haunted and which holds dark secrets. When she spots an enigmatic stranger in the audience at Wilson’s Music Hall, seventeen-year-old Phoebe Turner doesn’t realise her life is about to change. ![]()
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