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Fell Top

(1935)
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I stumbled unto Winifred Watson, through the cinematic adaptation of Miss Pettrigrew lives for a day. Having obtained the book it was based on, which is simply delightful, I was interested in trying to find more of Ms Watson's books.

Fell Top is her first novel, and so different in tone and style, that's it's awfully hard to imagine they are by the same author. What they do share in common, is both are extremely well written.

Fell Top is on initial glance, the type of countryside based drama, that Cold Comfort Farm so adroitly caricatured. Yet Ms Watson, crafts a story crammed with elements of incest (if not in action, then in feeling), marital and child abuse, murder, passion and hatred, vivid tangible hatred.

It's a stunner, and I am simply marvelled that it was published in 1935.

It's a shame that most of her books seem to be out of print, unavailable, or out-of-the-reach-of-mere-mortals priced (there's currently a copy off Odd Shoes on Amazon listed at £235!!)




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