“There's nothing makes you admire people like seeing yourself in them.” — Eleanor Alice Burford as Victoria Holt, The Pride of the Peacock
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🎧 The Shivering Sands by Victoria Holt #VictoriaHolt @kittykelly1616 @TantorAudio #LoveAudiobooks @sophiarose1816
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One earlier visit with a Victoria Holt tale on audio whetted my appetite for more. I was pleased to take up The Shivering Sands and listen in as new to me narrator, Kitty Kelly, took me back to Victorian times so I could savor a gently-paced gothic romantic suspense. The Shivering Sands opens with the […]
“I shall be on guard for my future” #1962Club #KirklandRevels #VictoriaHolt
For my second #1962Club read I'm once more taking a trip back into my past reading, albeit with the slight difference that today's book is not a re-read! Back in my early teens we didn't have a lot of money to buy books, and so I tended to grab just about anything I could get my hands on. We also didn't have Young Adult books as such, so as I grew up was drawn to my father's crime books and my…
Victoria Holt was one of my Big Three intros to classic, gothic romantic suspense along with Phyllis Whitney and Mary Stewart. I devoured her huge backlist as a teenager and pretty much loved it all. It has been many years and many twists in my reading taste since I picked up one of her books […]
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