Blog Tour: The Legacy of Old Gran Parks by Isobel Blackthorn

SYNOPSIS

Southern Australia, 1983. While Middle-aged stalwart Miriam rolls into town in her broken-down car, Frankie - a deer hunter - is up in the forested hinterland with her gun.

Meanwhile, fisherwoman Old Pearl sits on her front deck with her dog, a glass of whisky in her hand, and Emily, the English backpacker, scrubs out the pie-encrusted kitchen at the roadhouse.

But all is not well.

Gran Parks is stirring.

Four troubled women. One restless spirit.

Who will survive?

REVIEW

This tale lures you to the edge of your seat like you would around a campfire. You don’t know how, you don’t know where or what, but you do know something big is about the happen. Almost as though you are bracing yourself as go down the first fast decline on a rollercoaster.

Old Gran Parks is different in the sense that you know something is not right in a small town, but you don't truly know or understand what is really going on until it presents itself at that moment in time when everything is revealed. Truly, I wasn't expecting anything that actually happened. But I do know one thing, don't always trust what you see. Sometimes things happen in places that you never expect.

Most of all it is an interesting take on the human mind and how we look and take note of certain people and situations. As someone who loves to read literature that goes beyond just the written page, this did excite me. It gave me that basis to look at how we are as humans and how we sometimes make our own problems when we shouldn't have to.

If you want something that is a bit darker and challenges the deepest and darkest aspect of your soul, you should add this book to your TBR list very soon.

RATING: *** 1/2 (THREE AND A HALF STARS)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Isobel Blackthorn is a prolific novelist of unique and engaging fiction. She writes across a range of genres, including gripping mysteries and dark psychological thrillers.

Isobel won the Finalist Award in the Readers' Favourite Book Awards 2020 for her novel A Prison in the Sun. Her short story 'Nothing to Declare' was shortlisted for the Ada Cambridge Prose Prize 2019. Isobel won a Raven Award in 2019 for her dark thriller A Legacy of Old Gran Parks. The Cabin Sessions was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award 2018 and the Ditmar Awards 2018.

Isobel holds a PhD in Western Esotericism from the University of Western Sydney for her ground-breaking study of the texts of Theosophist Alice A. Bailey. Her engagement with Alice Bailey's life and works has culminated in the biographical novel The Unlikely Occultist and the full biography Alice A. Bailey: Life and Legacy.

Isobel carries a lifelong passion for the Canary Islands, Spain, her former home. Four of her novels are set on the islands of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura. These standalone novels are setting rich and fall into the broad nature of travel fiction.

Isobel has led a rich and interesting life and her stories are as diverse as her experiences, the highs and lows, and the dramas. A life-long campaigner for social justice, Isobel has written, protested and leant her weight to a range of issues including asylum seekers and family violence. A Londoner originally, Isobel currently lives in rural Victoria, Australia.

BUY LINKS

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Old-Gran-Parks-ebook/dp/B085C96917/

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