#jane healey

[lovelyintheory]

Bitter Herb Erica Jong / The Umbrella Academy Gerard Way, Gabriel Bá / Dearly Departed Shakey Graves / Tuca & Bertie Lisa Hanawalt / For Gothic Heroines, Haunted Houses Are Always Too Big Jane Healey / Memory theundergroundwoman / Head Like a Haunted House Queens of the Stone Age / Humans Are Haunted Houses CryptoNature / Baby You’re a Haunted House Gerard Way

[fiction-quotes]

There was something about Lockwood, about the potential of all its empty rooms. The sheer scale of them made one think that things one had lost, things one desired to find, could be hiding in them, waiting for one to come upon them. The house seemed to encourage wandering, hunting – the long corridor of its first floor, with the wall sconces leading you forwards, the tall windows, the neat condition of each room that a dozen servants tended to; the hidden service stairs waiting to be found; the narrow warren of the servants' floor; and above all the vacuum of life, the absence of people in the rooms that had been so lovingly prepared for them.

 —   The Animals at Lockwood Manor (Jane Healey)

[morgan--reads]

The Animals at Lockwood Manor - Jane Healey

Summary: In the early days of World War II, Hetty is charged with transporting the mammal collection of her museum to the Lockwood Manor and remaining there to care for them. It’s bad enough that Lord Lockwood is far from cooperative and that Hetty can’t stop her fascination with Lockwood’s beautiful but troubled daughter, Lucy, but items from the collection start to go missing and Hetty can’t help shake the feeling that something terrible is stalking the manor house.

Quote: “None of this nonsense happened before you and your animals arrived. And it’s you who always seems to be the center of these things, wandering about the house at all hours and then complaining that someone’s stealing your animals, giving us more work to do. If there is indeed a mischief-maker in our midst, I have half a mind that it’s you.”

My rating: 3.75/5.0   Goodreads: 3.33/5.0

Review: Properly gothic and downright spooky in places, this book is a page-turner. There are ghosts, creepy dolls, unexplained deaths, a beautiful woman who fears she’s going mad, hostile servants, lots of taxidermized animals—everything you could want in a gothic novel. It’s not perfect—some of the metaphors are a little forced and the time-skips make the pacing a little choppy—but it is incredibly engaging. The climax was surprising and dramatic and tied together the story perfectly. The romance element is take-it-or-leave-it for me, but it didn’t hurt my enjoyment of the story.

[sapphiclitnet]

...could be all the water I would ever need to survive, to live on—but I knew that could not be true, for I was a creature of flesh and blood.

— The Animals at Lockwood Manor Jane Healey

[biandlesbianliterature]

If gothic mystery and soft sapphic love surrounded by a creepy setting of taxidermy animals sounds amazing, then this is the book for you!

Healey has created an absolutely marvellous addition to the gothic romance genre, one I am pleased to say was as beautiful and mesmerising as I expected! 

The Animals at Lockwood Manor by Jane Healey was reviewed at Anxious Nachos

[jessica-drewz]

But one could not state that one was lonely, could one? It seemed to be the very height of gaucheness and would only make the other person desperately uncomfortable.

Jane Healey, The Animals at Lockwood Manor

[lgbtqreads]

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[universitybookstore]

A haunting debut novel from HMH and author Jane Healey,  The Animals at Lockwood Manor. (Read the Kirkus review here.)