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My Soul to Keep
My Soul to Keep
Author: Judith Hawkes
ISBN-13: 9780340665817
ISBN-10: 0340665815
Publication Date: 1/1/1996
Pages: 323
Edition: First Edition
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Publisher: E.P. Dutton & Co.
Book Type: Hardcover
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Really good, scary read. Forgotten past and imaginary friends.
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Twenty years ago on a Tennesse mountainside in an abandoned quarry something happened to nine year old Nan Lucas. Something that left her playmate, Tucker Wills, dead and her memory crippled, unable to recall the horror.
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Another book that was much better than I thought. Intense moves by the characters, and suspenseful. I did finish this one in one sitting. Creepy to the Max.
emeraldfire avatar reviewed My Soul to Keep on
On a mountainside in Tennessee lies an abandoned quarry, flooded long ago by an underground river. There, in the gathering shadows of a winter twilight, something happened to nine-year-old Nan Lucas. Something that left her daredevil playmate, Tucker Wills, dead and young Nan's mind crippled, unable to recall the horror.

Now a trendy Manhattan fashion photographer, Nan Lucas returns to Tennessee twenty years later, seeking to recover from a collapsed marriage. In the old farmhouse inherited from her grandmother, she begins to reorder her priorities - among them, forming a more solid relationship with her young son, Stephen. Common sense tells her that the imaginary playmate who consumes so much of Stephen's time is only a normal invention for a little boy who has no companion his own age.

Yet Nan cannot ignore her mounting fears that the mysterious figure Stephen calls 'Woody' is both very real and very dangerous. Joining forces with an old mountain woman who is rumored to possess the gift of second sight, she struggles to save Stephen from the shadowy companion who seems to be compelling him toward destruction. Yet as hope and time runs out, Nan comes to realize that she must somehow pierce the veil of her forgotten past and reach into the dark recesses of her memory to rediscover what happened at the quarry, on the long-ago winter night that Tucker Wills died.

I must say that I absolutely loved this book. I thought that it was extremely scary - but it was the subtle, psychological type of horror that I really enjoy. Judith Hawkes is a new author to me, and My Soul to Keep is the first book of hers that I have read. I believe that Judith Hawkes has written at least two other books, and I have placed both of them on my Wish List. I give My Soul to Keep by Judith Hawkes an A+!
cranbery avatar reviewed My Soul to Keep on + 530 more book reviews
Wow! Don't usually like horror, but this was set in my East TN mountains. Glad I read it!