House of Shadows by Nicola Cornick. Graydon House, 2015. Adult fiction.Part mystery, part romance, part historical fiction, House of Shadows combines them all! When modern-day Holly Ansell's brother disappears near the mill they knew as children, she returns to her roots to try and find him. The English countryside is home to gardens and forests where Elizabeth Stuart, the Winter Queen, spent her last years. Legends abound about a famous pearl and a diamond encrusted mirror that Elizabeth thought could see the future and bring disaster. In the early 1801's a woman named Lavinia Flyte wrote a diary that involves past, present, and future.
Cornick is a historian and docent for a seventeenth century house in Oxfordshire. Her research pays off as she describes details of Ashdown House quite realistically. She writes smoothly and makes it easy to keep the threads of the different stories from tangling.
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