"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. (May)Ĭopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Still, Rayne has crafted a memorable novel with the right mix of suspense, horror and emotion. A dark dividing by Sarah Rayne, 2011, Felony & Mayhem Press edition, in English - Felony & Mayhem ed. Well-drawn characters reveal themselves through thoughts and actions more than dialogue, as Rayne favors extensive narration over banter. Rayne writes in a semiformal style that evokes turn-of-the-last-century England and lends the novel an appropriately gothic atmosphere. Still, Rayne has crafted a memorable novel with the right mix of suspense, horror and emotion. As Harry's interest in Simone grows, the story branches into several separate tales: in addition to Harry's present-day investigation, there is the story of another set of conjoined twins, Viola and Sorrel Quinton, born in London 80 years earlier Simone's own history with her twin, Sonia, and her mother, Melissa, dating to the 1980s and the parallel plot of a novel that Harry uncovers during his research, The Ivory Gate, published in the 1900s. Pocket, 7.99 (567pp) ISBN 978-0-7434-5090-4. When Harry begins digging into Simone's past, however, he discovers that her twin sister, with whom she once was conjoined, mysteriously vanished years ago. Journalist Harry Fitzglen is unimpressed when he's sent to profile a new London artist named Simone Anderson. Rayne (pseudonym for "a well-known British author") draws readers into four creepy stories in this hefty suspense thriller.
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