Timeslip novel set in Dorset – Secrets of the Mist by Kate Ryder

Submitted: 16th September 2019

Dorset tales of mystery shrouded by mist

Timeslip novel set in Dorset – Secrets of the Mist by Kate Ryder – This book had all the feels. Mist, remote cottage and a story set across two times. One in the present day when a woman discovered she could meet the people living years, decades earlier in the same house. Two stories set across time. Secrets shrouded in mist.

You get the idea, I was loving this already!

Come down to Dorset on this latest booktrail to discover the timeslip mystery for yourself…

BookTrail Travel to the locations in Secrets of the Mist

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There’s nothing like a mysterious remote cottage surrounded in Dorset mist to get the reader’s expectations tingling. This was a lovely novel to sink into and to time- slip into. You know sometimes when you see a place and feel you’ve been there before? Or when you go into a house and feel you know it and can sense someone else there, history in its walls perhaps? Well this novel has all that and more. I swear though, that mist really makes it even more mysterious and compelling and I for one would quite like to visit Walditch now where it is set and try to find this (sadly fictional) house.

There’s lots to love: a house with secrets in its walls, a story which quite literally comes out of the brickwork and a woman in the present day with questions which a woman in the past has answers to. The story came alive with its many mystical and supernatural feels and the stunning way that the scenery and essence of the place was evoked.

There was also a nice romance to enjoy and I tell you, at the moment, this was very welcome for me as it felt fresh and different as well as a nice change from crime fiction which I seem to have gorged on lately. I got the chills reading this – so perfect for an autumn read and I swear it got a bit misty outside as I read it.

Spookily good.