I have a soft spot for gothic novels. I get the sense that Rebecca James set out to write the most gothic novel ever in The Woman in the Mirror. Although the supernatural persists in the background throughout the novel, it’s mainly the reflection of two women who encounter the mysterious Winterbourne Hall, high on a cliff over the Atlantic in Cornwall. Rachel Wright, in the present day, is a self-made woman. Overcoming the life of being raised an orphan, she has opened a successful art gallery in New York City when ...
