i remember you yrsa sigurdardottir true story

But somehow Sigurdardóttir’s timing and restraint meant that I was constantly on edge. Sigurdardóttir’s writing and the excellent translation by Philip Roughton build an atmosphere so tense that I genuinely had to stop reading it at bedtime because I was too freaked to put the light out! I can’t quite explain why – it should all have been very clichéd – deserted house, ghostly children, noises in the night, strange smells and creepy childish chuckling. The first half of this book is the scariest thing I’ve read in a long, long time. So I was very intrigued to see if she could maintain that in a novel that is much more centred around the supernatural. Her excellent writing in these sections created a chilling and decidedly creepy atmosphere. I recently read Sigurdardóttir’s Someone to Watch Over Me which, while primarily a traditional crime story, had a sub-plot concerning a possible haunting. And somehow the case seems to be linked to Freyr’s own son who went missing three years ago and has never been found… As Freyr and the police begin to investigate, it appears that this episode mirrors one from 60 years before…and that terrible things have been happening to the people who were children in that earlier class. But it’s not long before odd things are happening…and who is the strange child they keep catching glimpses of? Meantime in the town of Isafjördur, psychiatrist Freyr has been called in to a case of vandalism in the local school, where amidst the destruction one word has been scrawled in crayon on the wall – ‘DIRTY’. There is no way back to civilisation except by the boat which will return for them in a week’s time. Three people arrive at a deserted village to renovate a house. At last! A book that fully deserves the title of Fretful Porpentine! Light the candles, lock the doors and get ready for…

I remember you yrsa sigurdardottir true story