Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
My Teaser this week is from The Child’s Child by Barbara Vine
‘In my house where your innocent sister lives? Stay here where everybody we know would see your disgrace? I think not.’
Someone must be dead. He went up to his mother, laid his hand on her shoulder and said, ‘Where’s Maud? What’s happened to Maud?’
Reading Barbara Vine is like wrapping up in a quilt and saying a big ahh… I was slightly worried about reading this book being the first published since The Birthday Present in 2008, but it has proved to be a really enjoyable read. The most enjoyable section for me is the historical part which starts in 1929 and continues through the Second World War as this suits Barbara Vine’s instantly recognisable style of writing perfectly.
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Very dramatic teaser! Here’s mine:
http://collettaskitchensink.blogspot.com/2014/02/teaser-tuesday-2414.html
Colletta
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Thanks Colletta, all terribly intense and not really quite what I was expecting (but in a good way) 🙂
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Great teaser. I haven’t read any of her books. I will have to check it out. Here is my TT http://cynthiastacey.com/2014/02/04/teaser-tuesday-feb-4/
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Thanks Cynthia, Asta’s Book is brilliant as is A Dark-Adapted Eye and Brimstone Wedding. Thanks for sharing your teaser with me 🙂
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Interesting teaser, though it was your comments on the story below that intrigued me the most. Thanks for checking out my teaser earlier. Your ‘best of 2013’ list gave me some titles to add to my tbr this year 🙂
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Thank you! 🙂 I do hope you enjoy your choices from my top 10 of 2013 and thanks for checking my blog out 🙂
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You are welcome. No, thank you, I am always looking for a good book 🙂
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ohhh…another good one! I know your already stopped by mine – but I’ll post again if you don’t mind 🙂
http://mydogearedpurpose.com/2014/02/04/teaser-tuesday-and-new-releases-february-4th/
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Not at all 🙂
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This sounds like exactly the kind of book I adore reading, especially the part that starts in 1929. I’ll read this one.
My Teaser is from CAPE MAYBE.
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This isn’t the best of her work but for someone who has read all her books it was still a great read. Thanks for sharing your link.
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Great teaser! I never read this author but it really does sound good.
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Barbara Vine has a knack of painting authentic scenes of times gone by well worth reading Asta’ s Book is one I’ve re-read many times.
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I love the idea of wrapping up in a big quilt to read…and this one has piqued my curiosity. I haven’t yet read this author, either as Barbara Vine or Ruth Rendell. I must!
Thanks for visiting my blog, and enjoy!
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I prefer the Barbara Vine books but the early Ruth Rendell ones are old favourites too. I’d suggest you start with one of her earlier books 🙂
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I haven’t read this author but this one sounds really interesting. I’m going to look for it. Thanks for stopping by!
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It’s odd how an author will write as someone else and use a different style of writing.
Here’s mine
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Yes and I prefer her as Barbara Vine to Ruth Rendell although I do enjoy a bit of Inspector Wexford too 😉
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I won’t ask 😉
I read an abridged version of one of her books once as it came free with the Readers Digest
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Please don’t I;-) Oh I haven’t seen a Readers Digest for years… we went on one holiday when I was a teenager and there was a pile of them which kept me entertained for hours!
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I love the jokes and the “Life’s Like That” it’s the first things I always go for
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🙂 they do pack loads into such a little magazine!
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They do 🙂
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This is
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What disgrace?
Mine: http://storytreasury.wordpress.com/2014/02/04/3212/
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Oh all kinds of disgrace in this one 😉
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Not familiar with this author, but your teasers are intriguing. Mine: Up From the Grave by Jeaniene Frost.
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Thank you 🙂
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Whoa. Sounds gooood.
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Thank you, it was an enjoyable read!
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Sounds like an interesting book. I’ve never heard of this author, but I think I’ll check out some of her books!
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She is a great writer although she is quite old now. You should look for some of her older books, Asta’s Book is a great read and has a strong historical element from the start of the twentieth century….
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Ok, I’ll do that. Thanks!
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I haven’t read any of her books. Heard so much though. What genre do her books normally fall into?
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They are psychological thrillers but very character led and often deal with events in the past. These aren’t scary or gory reads. My favourites are Asta’s Book and A Dark Adapted Eye.
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So what’s happened to Maud?
http://cupandchaucer.wordpress.com/2014/02/04/teaser-tuesday-february-04/
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Well that would spoil the story 😉 Suffice to say she wasn’t having a great day!
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