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2000s: Sea Music, a cliff top house in Northumberland is an enchanting yet haunting place to be
Sea Music
What you need to know before your trail
Artist Jess Copper arrives in Northumberland after a traumatic few months in the hope that time here on the rugged coastline will allow her to rest and recuperate and get her life back together. She comes across a single house on the edge of a cliff called Sea Music and is drawn to it immediately. When she goes to view it, she gets the feeling that she’s seen it before, certain things look familiar at first. She also gets a strong sense of loneliness and at the top of the stair suddenly starts to feel dizzy.
Later that evening, she is haunted by a woman’s name – Lydia – and then sees her face. Who is Lydia and what does she want with Sea Music or is it Jess that she wants to contact?
Travel Guide
A desolate house at the edge of a cliff with views of the choppy North Sea. Just look at that cover for a start. This is a house with secrets and hidden secrets at that. An ideal place for a rest and to be isolated from the outside world but at the same time a place where you might think you are utterly alone but then realise you have an unwelcome housemate….
Something unpleasant is clawing at Jess’s mind and to be in such a lonely and remote house, hanging on for grim death at the edge of a cliff, is a sobering thought for anyone least of all a young girl hoping for a rest.
Lydia is a woman who died in a mysterious fall at the house many years earlier and she has a secret which is revealed, a son who was abducted as a baby only a few years before. The house is awash with secrets and a dark hidden past. Even the area around it is has a mysterious history –
The view was spectacular; the North Sea rolled past the Farne Islands and the impressive Longstone Lighthouse from which Grace darling had her father had set off on their rescue mission; a stone wall with a gate set in, separated the garden from a sandy beach.
But then the area takes on a dark tone –
Waves, like mountainous green glass towers,shattered and tumbled into a fizzing, frothing maelstrom…..
As Lydia and Jess’s story merges, the edge of that cliff gets closer and closer and the sea below looks set to swallow the secrets of that house forever.
Streetview Maps
North East England, Seahouses: The harbour
Sit on the benches and enjoy fish and chips
Sit on the benches and enjoy fish and chips
North East England, Bamburgh
Grace Darling museum is a must see!
Grace Darling museum is a must see!
Booktrailer Review
Susan:
I love books set in old houses and those set close to the cliff edge have a certain thrill about them. Why build a house here, who would live here,what are the dangers of living so close to the rocks and the sea below?
The entire atmosphere was creepy and as Jess started to feel Lydia’s presence, the tension and chills ramped up for me. It was interesting to jump back and forth in time and to see each of the stories come together as the overall mystery was solved.
It was a gothic tale and set in the Northumberland coast, an apt landscape for such a story.
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