Review: The Man In The Picture

The Man In The Picture by Susan Hill
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This is the first ghost story from Susan Hill I have read, and although I know many of you would have said to start with The Women in Black I wanted to see what a lesser spoken about story was about.

The title of the story pretty much lays out the premise for this book however, I was blown away by the beauty of the writing, slowly drawing me in and pulling me along with the tale of the Venetian oil painting scene and the effect of attracting people to it and to hold on to it.

This story is 145 pages long and therefore goes at a fair pace to tell the tale, at first from Theo a Cambridge professor to his friend Oliver and then from Oliver to his wife Anne and the effect.

I did enjoy it however, I did not find this either spine tingling or foreboding as I would have hoped therefore I have given it 3*. I have a number of her other books and will continue to expand my reading of Susan Hill as I did enjoy the writing style.

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