The Well : A Novel (Paperback)

from Beamis12

I'm not going to rehash the plot because the description on the book page is a very good one. I'm just going to write what I thought of the book. When I first started this it seemed a bit wordy, though I was interested to see where this was going and of course to find out who really killed Lucien...

from jan.fleming

Ruth Ardingly has just been released from prison to serve out a sentence of house arrest for arson and suspected murder at her farm, The Well. Beyond its borders, some people whisper she is a witch; others a messiah. For as soon as Ruth returns to The Well, rain begins to fall on the farm. And it...

from jayne_charles

This was almost an apocalypse novel (and how I love apocalypse novels!) with its scenario of a drought-stricken country in which water shortages are causing all sorts of chaos, except in a smallholding called 'The Well' which lives up to its name and has a plentiful supply. A story of marital bre...

from eachurch

The beginning of The Well captivated me. The premise of the story was interesting, and I appreciated how Chanter made the land where it continued to rain a character in the novel. Unfortunately, as soon as the Sisters of the Rose entered the story, it lost some of its momentum. The religious elem...

from beckyhaase

THE WELL by Catherine Chanter THE WELL is several buckets of water too long. The first 200 pages of the book were boring. The last 100 were fast paced and absorbing. The question - Are the last 100 pages worth the first 200? If you like many pages of psychological wanderings to get to the real st...