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The Black Candle

Bridget Deane Mordaunt was a woman of some consequence in her own part of the world. Inheriting her father’s businesses at the age of nineteen, by the time she was twenty-three in 1880 she was running them with as firm and confident a hand on the tiller as any man. She had also become known as a good and considerate employer whose workers could regard their ‘Miss Bridget’ with affection as well as respect.

Yet the path destiny required Bridget to follow was not an easy one. Her feckless cousin Victoria became infatuated with Lionel Filmore, the fortune-hunting elder son of an old but impoverished family living in the decayed grandeur of Grove House. Bridget had no illusions about Lionel, but at the same time Victoria’s happiness was something for which she would give and yield much. So a pattern began to form that would shape the lives of generations to come; a pattern of some good and some great evil, but all of it inexorably linking Bridget ever more closely with the Filmores and their House.

The Black Candle displays all the skills of narrative and the shrewd perception of human strengths and frailties. This is a story spanning nearly half a century, ever engrossing, with a diversity of brilliantly realised characters, particularly Bridget Mordaunt, a strikingly memorable woman who illustrates the truth that while people are changed by events they remain essentially the same inside.
Bridget Deane Mordaunt was a woman of some consequence in her own part of the world. Inheriting her father’s businesses at the age of nineteen, by the time she was twenty-three in 1880 she was running them with as firm and confident a hand on the tiller as any man. She had also become known as a good and considerate employer whose workers could regard their ‘Miss Bridget’ with affection as well as respect.

Yet the path destiny required Bridget to follow was not an easy one. Her feckless cousin Victoria became infatuated with Lionel Filmore, the fortune-hunting elder son of an old but impoverished family living in the decayed grandeur of Grove House. Bridget had no illusions about Lionel, but at the same time Victoria’s happiness was something for which she would give and yield much. So a pattern began to form that would shape the lives of generations to come; a pattern of some good and some great evil, but all of it inexorably linking Bridget ever more closely with the Filmores and their House.

The Black Candle displays all the skills of narrative and the shrewd perception of human strengths and frailties. This is a story spanning nearly half a century, ever engrossing, with a diversity of brilliantly realised characters, particularly Bridget Mordaunt, a strikingly memorable woman who illustrates the truth that while people are changed by events they remain essentially the same inside.

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8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

Good but not her best, October 25, 2000

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This review is from: The Black Candle (Paperback)

I just finished reading this book and it was good but not one of her best. When the book first starts Bridget Mordaunt was very boring then the story line picked up a little. Then the book went into a different direction and it really picked up. Bridget was a nice person at first but then she changed. The story was getting really interesting and the it went back to Bridget & then it got slow again. But it is worth reading. It has a lot to do with the different in the classes back in the nineteenth century.

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Impecable!, July 3, 2000

Ruth A. Fox (Benton, AR) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Black Candle (Audio Cassette)

I don't have many words for this book...it left me speechless. The strength and weaknesses of humanity...the trial ans tibulations...oh lord...it's almost like a soap opera (I hate soaps but I loved thia book! )

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