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The Beacon | 
 enlarge | Author: Susan Hill
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Category: Book
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 1569
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0701183403
EAN: 9780701183400
ASIN: 0701183403
Publication Date: October 2, 2008
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 Starts well...then what happened? January 4, 2009
The Kitten (uk)
As a major fan of Susan Hill I was so looking forward to this book,read the reviews on here ,all seemed fab.
However,as with the last book the Ghost in The Mirror I was left disappointed.
After a great start,The Beacon just fizzles out,with I feel,no satisfactory or explanatory ending.
I wont spoil the book by explaining further but I was left with a ...is that it? feeling at the end.
 The Beacon December 1, 2008
J. Baron (Brighton, Sussex)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Susan Hill has done it again! I couldn't put the book down. The way she manages to build up such characterisation and a feeling of place is remarkable. It was a book that left me feeling bereft. Particularly for May who was left to look after her mother, who appeared to have been a emotionally disturbed woman. There was one piece earlier in the book referring to Bertha looking up at a tree and having a feeling of panic. That was never explained. Nor was the cupboard under the stairs but it obviously had terrible memories for Frank. The ending is ambigious and leaves the reader wondering. Highly recommended.
The Cupboard Under the Stairs - everybody has one. November 28, 2008
Reuben (Edinburgh, UK)
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
Susan Hill's new novella is a dark delight; a tale infused with Gothic undertones - I was left drawing comparisons with "Wuthering Heights" (albeit obliquely). "The Beacon" itself centres on one family and how the inexplicable motives and resentment of one member, Frank, throw his siblings' understanding of themselves and their joint past into jeopardy and confusion.
The plot is tightly structured and full of suspense. It switches between past and present as the main character, May, recalls her life and that of her three siblings, Colin, Frank and Berenice, and the emotional damage each sustains from having to live with tainted memories of their childhood. It is a story of betrayal and revenge, but also of a life left unfulfilled, the untold memories and secrets that could be present in any family's past, and the human capacity to corrupt and manipulate.
The result is ambiguous and sinister, the reader being left unsure just as the characters in the story are, what is true and what "The Cupboard Under the Stairs" really signifies.
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