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Painting the Darkness

Painting the Darkness

by Robert Goddard

Book Details

Publisher: Grove Atlantic
Published: 2015
Language: en
Pages: 608
ISBN: 9780802124357
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Confidence: 65%

Content Intensity

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💥ViolenceLow
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❤️Love & RomanceLow
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🧠Mental HealthModerate
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💬!*$#LanguageVery low
1
🍷🚬Substance UseVery low
3
😨Fear / HorrorModerate

Story Themes

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🧙Fantasy / SupernaturalNot present
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🏳️‍🌈LGBTQ+ RepresentationNot present
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🚀Sci-Fi / FuturisticNot present
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Disability & NeurodiversityNot present

Description

In Robert Goddard's third novel, a bestseller in the United Kingdom and now back in print, is a masterful exercise in suspense set in Victorian-era England. On a mild autumn afternoon in 1882, thirty-four-year-old husband and father William Trenchard sits smoking his pipe in the garden of his comfortable family home. When the creak of the garden gate announces the arrival of an unexpected visitor, he is puzzled but not alarmed.

Themes & Topics

ThrillersMystery & DetectiveSuspenseFictionAction & AdventureHistorical
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