When Freya inquires about a portrait of a girl who appears to be Stella in the house’s front hall, she is lured into a web of dark intrigue spun by Byrne Hall’s inhabitants, an artist and his enigmatic mother. Five years after her mercurial older sister, Stella, jumped to her death from a cliff near Byrne Hall, Freya and her father attend a cousin’s wedding on the grounds of the imposing house. Interpret and evaluate secondary reading and contemporary responses to the texts, and use these interpretations when presenting arguments.Elizabeth Brooks’s new novel, The Whispering House, is a spellbinding gothic story featuring a sinister country house in England’s West Country.Examine Gothic literature's influence on other forms of popular culture, and demonstrate an awareness of the cultural and historical contexts in which the texts were written.
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