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While She Sleeps by Ethel Lina White

balancinghistorybooks's review

4.0

I read this for the Switzerland stop of my Around the World in 80 Books challenge, after deciding that Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain was perhaps too much to tackle whilst starting another University term. I adore The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White, but was quite disappointed with the second book of hers which I read. While She Sleeps was thankfully a marked improvement; I found it well plotted and clever, and the twists and turns throughout kept me both interested and guessing. White's writing is taut in all of the right places, and whilst the ending was perhaps a little too convenient, it was certainly effective.