McKillip Rings the Bell with this book.

Patricia A McKillip's The Bell At Sealey Head was my next book. She doesn't seem to have her own web site. This links to a fan site: http://www.patriciamckillip.com/ and this to a bibliography site: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Patricia_A._McKillip

I've read and enjoyed most of her work since the days of her Riddle Master series. This book is about the search for a bell that rings exactly at sunset. Almost everybody in town can hear it, although for some it is so much a part of the background it is unnoticeable. Because no one knows where it actually is, theories abound.

The story takes us on a search for the bell, while life goes on in the town of Sealy Head. The answer lies in a Great House with a dying mistress and a maid who sometimes opens doors to elsewhere. The book is a good one, but the atmosphere is definitely country, slow paced and rather casual.




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