LillyCat
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Just picked up a copy of Waterstones' book magazine and inside there is a large article by author Kate Mosse on her new novel.
Some of you will remember her as the one that wrote Labyrinthe which went huge following the popularity of the Da Vinci Code and other Dan Brown novels.
Anyway, her new (fictional) novel is based on the Tarot and an archaic deck of tarot cards hidden in a sepulchre...It's a ghost story by the looks of it.
The story starts in 1891 when a brother and sister go to live in the Domaine de la Cade estate and find themselves terrorised by an unseen force and intrigued by the rumour of a tarot deck hidden in a sepulchre in the forest. The story then picks up in 2007 when an American author arrives at the same estate and gets embroiled in the tragic history of the Domaine de la Cade (which is now a hotel). The story then revolves around the mystery of the disappearance of a deck of tarot cards called the Vernier Tarot.
Kate Mosse explains that she did a lot of reading about the Tarot and interviewed a lot of professional tarot readers as part of the research for her book. She also explains how she was in two minds about the tarot - couldn't quite believe that 78 cards could tell you anything but absolutely terrified of getting a reading done. She does in the end but just comments that it wasn't what she expected. A tarot deck was specially commissioned for this book and the cards appear on the endpapers of the novel (its RWS based by the looks of it). The Devil card has the usual Devil on it but the man and woman are very well dressed indeed - quite different from anything I've seen before.
I'm just letting you guys and gals know in case you fancy checking out this title for yourself - in the UK this book will be released in hardback in October - for our US cousins, I am not sure when it will be released (probably way before it comes out here
Oh, and in case you want something to tide you over in the meantime, the author suggests reading The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino - another novel inspired and based on the Tarot. Sounds quite spooky to me.
luv from your resident bookworm
lillycat
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Just picked up a copy of Waterstones' book magazine and inside there is a large article by author Kate Mosse on her new novel.
Some of you will remember her as the one that wrote Labyrinthe which went huge following the popularity of the Da Vinci Code and other Dan Brown novels.
Anyway, her new (fictional) novel is based on the Tarot and an archaic deck of tarot cards hidden in a sepulchre...It's a ghost story by the looks of it.
The story starts in 1891 when a brother and sister go to live in the Domaine de la Cade estate and find themselves terrorised by an unseen force and intrigued by the rumour of a tarot deck hidden in a sepulchre in the forest. The story then picks up in 2007 when an American author arrives at the same estate and gets embroiled in the tragic history of the Domaine de la Cade (which is now a hotel). The story then revolves around the mystery of the disappearance of a deck of tarot cards called the Vernier Tarot.
Kate Mosse explains that she did a lot of reading about the Tarot and interviewed a lot of professional tarot readers as part of the research for her book. She also explains how she was in two minds about the tarot - couldn't quite believe that 78 cards could tell you anything but absolutely terrified of getting a reading done. She does in the end but just comments that it wasn't what she expected. A tarot deck was specially commissioned for this book and the cards appear on the endpapers of the novel (its RWS based by the looks of it). The Devil card has the usual Devil on it but the man and woman are very well dressed indeed - quite different from anything I've seen before.
I'm just letting you guys and gals know in case you fancy checking out this title for yourself - in the UK this book will be released in hardback in October - for our US cousins, I am not sure when it will be released (probably way before it comes out here
Oh, and in case you want something to tide you over in the meantime, the author suggests reading The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino - another novel inspired and based on the Tarot. Sounds quite spooky to me.
luv from your resident bookworm
lillycat
xxxx
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