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Naomi's Room by Jonathan Aycliffe5/29/2023 ![]() Usually, this leaves me unsatisfied with a book- but now I'm about to complain that this book provides too much explanation! Impossible to please. ![]() I've complained (more than once) that so much ghostly horror doesn't even try to explain itself- and when there are "explanations", they are often disappointingly weak and thin. ![]() ![]() Reading this book reminded me of one of those tightropes I expect a good author to walk. I make what are probably unreasonable demands of authors. I have come to the conclusion that I am a picky reader. In a howling, bumping story of past and present day hell, Jonathan Aycliffe's haunting psychological masterpiece is guaranteed to make you sink to untold depths of teeth-shaking terror. Days later her murdered body is discovered. For Naomi, their beautiful, angelic only child, has disappeared. But, by the end of the day, all Charles and his wife have left are cups of tea and police sympathy. Brimming with excitement, Charles sets off with his daughter Naomi on a Christmas Eve shopping trip to London. ![]() Charles and Laura are a young, happily married couple inhabiting the privileged world of Cambridge academia. ![]()
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