Beyond These Voices

Braddon is better known for her complicated plots, but here she takes some trouble over the characters. Even the deceased have a distinct personality here: the heroine's mother, for instance, has the gumption to marry the man of her choice in a registry office and live very happily with him for four......more

This story has many appealing sections, but there is so much repetition about how the different characters felt about everything that it was sometimes numbing. I did have part of the mystery figured out (just as the author intended!) but was surprised by the other part. Each of the characters had an......more