Nancy Netherwood Extract from Night and Light and The Half-Light
Wakeworth House, Lincolnshire, the country seat of the Caldwell Family, creeping with illicit magic and ghosts. No sense of modernity has ever survived in the house. Even when we’re not in the house, we’re still in the house in spirit. We’re also in the theatre. prologue: lantern
Darkness. Then, seventeen-year-old lorna opens the shutter of a dark lantern, spilling a little window of light into the void. She waits. Then she closes the shutter. She looks out, waiting for a response. Somewhere else in the dark, a light shines back. Then darkness again. A clock chimes twelve. part 1: halloween/samhain
1922. aoife, 18,
emerges from the darkness. She’s an Irish farm girl, dressed simply, practically – no unnecessary embellishments or fuss. She’s a girl who has worked and lived her life outdoors and it shows.
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