And as the story builds, our perceptions of the people in it change. This, I think, is an important part of Wylding Hall's effect: that the reader, with all these snippets of information from various perspectives, can piece together more of the story than any of the characters. Like several incidents in the book, it's clear that the individual concerned hasn't told anyone about what happened, until now. Nancy, who's been guitarist Will's girlfriend for a couple of years, arrives on a visit and starts screaming in terror - though she doesn't explain her behaviour to the others. Julian and Lesley hook up, but it doesn't last. The interpersonal relationships of the band, their friends and lovers are complicated and intense. Several of the characters lose their way - and find inexplicable, or unnerving, rooms - at various times. The house is huge and rambling, and there is a constant smell of fresh woodsmoke. In the summer of 1972, following the death of former lead singer Arianna, the band (with new singer Lesley, an American teenager) retreat to a secluded country manor house to work on their second album. It's told by members and associates of the folk band Windhollow Fayre, in excerpts from interviews forty years after the disappearance of lead singer Julian Blake.
Short but powerful, Elizabeth Hand's Wylding Hall is a dark rural fantasy. When you step into sacred time, you’re actually moving sideways into a different space that’s inside the normal world.
".You know that feeling you get, that time is passing faster or slower? Well, it really is moving differently.
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