Moving between present day and the past we learn about Maud’s experiences as a young girl devoid of a mother at the turn of the 20th century, under the rule of a father who doesn’t even consider her really human on account of her sex. It’s gothic certainly and has elements of the paranormal but not in a scary way. Despite being listed as a horror I wouldn’t call it that. Slowly, Edmund begins to feel haunted by the painting, which has come to be known as ‘the doom’, he can smell the fen in his room, hear claws clicking on the landings and is convinced that something is out to get him…. But when Maud happens upon her father’s diary, everything changes, during an evening walk Edmund has stumbled across an old painting in the cemetery, a painting which disturbs him. Edmund is tyrannical dominator to his family, particularly his young daughter Maud, who at only 14 is expected to take on the running of the household when her mother dies in childbirth. Except all is not as it seems at Wake’s End. Edmund Stearn is a respected historian, land owner and scholar, with the perfect family in his big house. Synopsis: it’s 1906 and Wake’s End is a huge Manor House perched on the edge of the fens of Suffolk, surrounded by the village of Wakenhyrst and tied to the church of St Guthlaf.
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