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The Green Door by Christopher Bowden (view source)
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|title=The Green Door
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|date=October 2014
|isbn=0955506735
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Clare Mallory is a promising junior barrister working from a prestigious chambers. Life is pretty good. She's not the type to be taken in by psychics but when cards advertising the services of one Madame Pavonia start arriving in the post, her interest is piqued, first by the rainbow spectrum pattern and then by... well, something else. Tempted to visit the fortune-teller at a local fair, Clare is taken aback at Madame Pavonia's reaction to her and rushes out of the tent.
The book is set in London, Norfolk and Hampshire and each setting is distinctively realised, as are both time frames. Descriptively, the book is strong in both time and place. I don't want to say too much about the plot for fear of giving it all away but I will say that the mystery draws in you in inexorably. I suppose, ultimately, it's about family history and how it feeds into the present, even if it's unknown, and about how much control we have over our own lives. Do past lives influence the lives we lead today? Do outside forces influence more than our own wishes and desires?
If you've read any of Bowden's other books, you'll recognise some of the characters. I haven't, but after thoroughly enjoying ''The Green Door'', I plan to rectify that soon. And I don't think you need to worry about missing anything: this novel reads perfectly well as a standalone. We also have a review of Bowden's [[The Amber Maze by Christopher Bowden|The Amber Maze]].
Another great story with an interesting psychic character is [[Maxwell's Mask by M J Trow]].
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|name=Leonard Crank
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|comment=I enjoyed the book but I still don't know how or why the child died, sorry.
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