Susan Hill's 'From The Heart' Book Review
CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS The first time I ever read a Susan Hill novel was back in 2010 whilst studying an access course at York college. We were introduced to her Gothic novel The Woman in Black in our literature class. As a lover of horror and ghost stories, I was surprised that I'd never heard of her or her work. Hill has fast become one of my favourite authors over the years. She has a way of merging characters so realistic they almost seem to come off the page, along with story lines, arcs and twists that you can't see coming, and which sometimes can floor you with sheer emotion, (especially if you're a book lover like me and extremely sensitive to fictional characters and their life stories 😉) So of course I was very excited to devour this most recent book by Hill. Though I've read a couple of her short stories in the past, I've mainly stuck to her more ghoulish work. Stories about possessed dolls, Victorian men who mess around with corpses s