Written by Hester Fox (The Witch of Willow Hall), this novel is set in Boston in the 1850s and follows Tabby, an orphaned woman who sees the ghosts and found a home with a graveyard keeper, and Caleb, a man who’s father recently died and never forgot the little girl that helped him when he was a teenager.
Overall, I did really enjoy this novel. Fox has a way of writing that makes the pages fly by and keeps you interested. I also found the character of Caleb to be very interesting, particularly because she doesn’t shy away from his faults, at all. He is a cad. He knows he is a cad. He is trying to change.
Tabby was a wonderful characters, and I think fit very well for a woman who was lost and found her own home. This is a novel in which the action takes place in all of the interactions, and a lot of the ‘physical’ action happens indirectly or off-screen.
If you enjoy a story set in the US in the 1800s, and that does touch on some of the issues that were plaguing the country at that time, give this book a read. It has a romance, but the romance is on the slower sweet side, and there is quiet the murder mystery, as well as corpse snatching, involved.
If you are looking for something with a ton of action, I would recommend that you keep on looking.
