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Joan Aiken takes us from cosmopolitan New York to a bleak Scottish castle in her unforgettable Gothic novel about love, loss and tragedy. Reviews A tightly knit, exciting novel . . . an unusually well-told talePublisher's WeeklyJoan Aiken writes superbly, with a force, a colour and strength of imagination that one encounters all too rarely today. I loved every moment of itThe TelegraphJoan Aiken's Castle Barebane promises every kind of Gothic pleasure, from grimy decadent London to a crumbling Scottish castle . . . the plot twists agilely enough to lead most readers up the g...Read More