THE MIDNIGHT SIDE is deep, spooky, and gratifying. The author seamlessly entertwines the South African backdrop, with its climate, vegetation and wildlife, and its millennia-old spirituality, with contemporaneous London: crowded, busy, urban, and with medieval alchemy, a particular interest--nay, obsession, of the late Alette. Indeed, both Alchemy and African religious belief thrum throughout the novel with an undeniable drumming pulse. This is a deeply psychological story which refuses to give up its secrets too easily, neither to its characters nor to its readers; but readers will close the book breathing a sigh of satisfaction at a story very well done.
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