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Dance With Me: Brilliant psychological suspense from the author of Apple Tree Yard
£2.80
A man dies a week after re-writing his will. In it, he has left everything he owns to a woman he has known for only three weeks. As Bet investigates Peter’s past, she discovers that her ex-lover was not all that he seemed…
In a crumbling office block, another woman has a different sort of ghost to confront. Iris runs her own business but strange things keep happening. Her phone rings and there’s no one there. Somebody taps at her door. In the basement, something unpleasant is lurking…
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Additional information
| Publisher | Reissue edition (27 Feb. 2014), Simon & Schuster UK |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| File size | 336 KB |
| Text-to-Speech | Enabled |
| Screen Reader | Supported |
| Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
| X-Ray | Not Enabled |
| Word Wise | Enabled |
| Sticky notes | On Kindle Scribe |
| Print length | 257 pages |
by Lovebooks
I was so confused by this book, I read the other reviews to see if I was the only one who didn’t understand it. Sadly, the reviews confirmed my thoughts. Despite the writer’s gift for story telling, this one is too obscure. Does Iris have a child or not? What was the point of the ghost in the basement? Are they the same person? Is one a ghost? If so, which one and why? Who is Stephen who pops up at the end? No answers at the end, either, leaving the reader frustrated and annoyed. I bought this book because I loved Apple Tree Yard, but this one does not match up at all. A shame.
by Mike C
I’m amazed at some of the negative reviews here. It’s really not that difficult to sort out the real story, unless thinking about what things actually mean is beyond you, if you see what I mean…
Having read – and loved – Platform Seven and (to an only slightly lesser extent) Honey-Dew, I read a couple of books by other authors, then came back to Ms. Doughty. It has her trademark witty lines, but feels darker and more serious than, say, Honey-Dew. I realise that I’m reading the books in reverse chronological order!
This is a complex book, where it’s sometimes (deliberately, I think) difficult to tell who’s who and who is actually narrating the story, but I read it in not much more than a day.
There’s a disjointed timeline and multiple viewpoints, but a very strong storyline and interesting, but flawed characters.
For me, the story really picked up at around 35% of the way through and Chapter 9 is genuinely scary if, as I did, you read it late at night, on your own, in the dark.
A thoroughly enjoyable book and one that I found hard to put down.
by Kindle Customer
I had enjoyed t he author’s previous books and loo k ed forward to dance with me. Had a good start and middle from then it was like reading a different book. And not in a good way. No sympathy for characters . J u st plain silly at the end leaving you no wiser as to what , who where and so on
by Jeca
Not sure there was a point to this novel. A piece of self indulgent writing in which the author decided a plot was not required. Why?
by S. G. Parfitt
After Apple Tree Yard well worth reading her other work
by Kindle Customer
The author (Louise Doughty) is articulate and funny in places; her grammar is impeccable, and she is a joy to read. I loved her Apple Tree Yard, and looked forward to reading more of her books. ‘Platform 7’ wandered off topic halfway through, and this book ‘Dance with me’ was the most confusing book I ever read. So many characters; unrelated anecdotes. Were Iris, Bet, she, and I all the same person? What became of the Bearer Bonds? Not for me I am afraid.
by Kindle Customer
Not sure what to make of this
Love Apple tree yard but although the writing in this tale is excellent I get the feeling Louise Doughty didn’t know where the story was going whilst she tapped it out on her computer or whatever she writes with.
No plot as such quite directionless really
I gave 3 stars as I do love her style of writing but wAsted on this
by John Foster
I really like Louise Doughty novels, they are exceptionally well written, and a couple of them stay in my memory. DANCE WITH ME I struggled with, although I did finish it, just, determined to do so. A really good opening situation then became bogged down in plot convolutions, but worst of all so much waffle, the padding of irrelevant detail made this a hard novel to stay with, some of it seemed endless. The story was unconvincing and contrived and the writing patchy — often the words flew off the page, but in other sections clichés and weak phraseology undermined the piece. Good in parts, like the Curate’s Egg. There was a sinking feeling to the whole thing, as if the author had lost confidence in her work. None of her usual magic.