![]() ![]() But as Alice becomes more deeply drawn into the life of Prince's strange religious sect, secrets are revealed that seem to hint at a darker nature lurking behind the man's charm. Prince ignites a passion in Alice that she never knew existed, and she dares to think she might be free at last. She escapes to join the Agapemonites in their Abode of Love, where ex-Reverend Henry Prince rules his isolated colony of women as their Beloved. After a chance encounter with a charming stranger, and a final incident with her family that sees her condemned to the madhouse, Alice sees her opportunity to run and grasps it with both hands. Rattle, Alison The Beloved Hot Key, 201 5, pp304, 7.99 pounds sterling 0379 8 The Beloved by the talented Rattle, thrusts the reader directly into the action from page one as we join Alice Angel as she struggles against the straps her mother uses to bind her to the bed. ![]() A constant disappointment to all but her doting father, she longs for the day that she might break free from the stifling atmosphere of her mother's rule. Listen instructs a nameless narrator at the storys start: trees creak, the latches of bedroom doors rattle, and whitewashed walls whisper for hush. ALSO BY ALISON RATTLE The Quietness The Madness For my Beloved Mum Wild was the wish, intense the gaze I fixed upon the murky air, Expecting, half, a kindling blaze Would strike my raptured vision there Anne Bront, ‘Severed and Gone’ I am Alice Angel. Alice Angel has known only a life of rules, restriction and punishments as she strays from the rigid path of Victorian proprietary that her mother has set out for her. Escape from a bullying mother takes one young woman to an even more dangerous place. ![]()
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