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When photographer Ian Jarrett, on assignment in snowy Vienna, meets and falls in love with a mysterious woman named Marian Esguard, the sex is terrific and their future back in England looks happy. Jarrett walks out on his wife and 15-year-old daughter and goes off to await his new lover. But she doesn't show up, and Jarrett decides to track her down. In the process he unearths an out-of-this-world mystery: Marian may well be a ghost from the past (and a ghost with a grudge). That would certainly explain why none of the pictures of Marian come out. During the 19th century, a woman of the same name claimed to have discovered the techniques of modern photography, but she never received the credit for it.
Quickly--perhaps a little too quickly--other people appear on the scene to explain the unexplainable. There's the London psychotherapist who has been treating Eris Moberly (the woman who calls herself Marian Esguard); there's a slick financier with a shadowy background and unknown motives. But despite these secondary characters popping out of the woodwork, Goddard is a master craftsman: he lures us into his fun house expertly, then guides us through the dark tunnels, cackling madly. An added bonus is a reverence for the history of photography, which lights up the story. --Dick Adler
| AUTHOR: | Robert Goddard |
| CATEGORY: | Book |
| MANUFACTURER: | Henry Holt & Company |
| ISBN: | 080506155X |
| TYPE: | English Mystery & Suspense Fiction, Fiction, Fiction - Mystery/ Detective, Missing persons, Mystery & Detective - General, Mystery/Suspense, Photographers, Photography, Reincarnation |
| MEDIA: | Hardcover |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
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Customer Reviews of Caught in the Light
Superb Blending the past and present seamlessly, Goddard had written a brilliant novel that keeps the reader guessing from one page to the next. The totally believable initial encounter between Jarret and Marian sets the stage for the events that follow.How does one explain a physical and torridly sexual tryst with an enchanting woman who lived in another century? This is where Goddard's skill lies--he spins a sensitive and thrilling romance where it all seems so very possible.
Not his best
I found it hard to sympathize with the stupidity of the main character here.
Good book in parts, but a touch of the "Mills and Boone" in many places.
I found the author's "Past Caring" much more to my liking.
A Shaggy Dog Story
This was a wonderful book up until the last section where it seemed as if the author had written himself into a corner. It was almost as if someone else, someone in a hurry to be done with it all, had finished the story. The cleverness and imaginativeness of the rest of the book were swept unconvincingly aside leaving the reader feeling cheated for having been carried along only to find that the author apparently grew bored or unable to explain what he had so masterfully begun. He halfheartedly answered a few questions raised and then got bored and wrote "the end."