Cat Winters portrays a fascinating period in American history with clever writing and a delicious plot twist. Days after finishing this story, it remains the first thought I have in the morning, and the thing that haunts me until I sleep., A wonderfully atmospheric and intriguing novel. Would that every chapter of history be presented in such captivating, lushly-written prose.|9780062347336|, Words like 'unputdownable' and 'irresistible' are simply not enough for Cat Winters's In the Shadow of Blackbirds. Winters' novel illustrates how the tenacity of the human spirit combines with the audacity born of necessity to triumph over even the most unthinkable challenges. The Uninvited is an atmospheric, haunting, and utterly compelling novel. But as her 'uninvited guests' begin to appear to her more often, she knows her life will be torn apart once more, but Ivy has no inkling of the other-worldly revelations about to unfold. Ivy is drawn into this new world of jazz, passion, and freedom, where people live for the day, because they could be stricken by nightfall. Horrified, she leaves home, to discover the flu has caused utter panic and the rules governing society have broken down. An hour later, she learns her younger brother and father have killed a young German out of retaliation for the death of Ivy's older brother Billy in the Great War. On that October evening in 1918 she sees the spirit of her grandmother, rocking in her mother's chair. For she sees the uninvited ones-ghosts of loved ones who appear to her, unasked, unwelcomed, for they always herald impending death.
But Ivy's life-long gift-or curse-remains. Twenty-five year old Ivy Rowan rises from her bed after being struck by the flu, only to discover the world has been torn apart in just a few short days.
Set during the fear and panic of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919, The Uninvited is part gothic ghost-story, part psychological thriller, perfect for those who loved The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield or The Vanishing by Wendy Webb.
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