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The Bell at Sealey Head

Patricia A. McKillip

Hardcover | Pages: 277 pages

Rating: 3.99 | 2413 Users | 252 Reviews

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Original Title:	The Bell at Sealey Head
ISBN:	0441016308 (ISBN13: 9780441016303)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Locus Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel (2009), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (2009)

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Dream a little dream of a little book, perfect in every way; a story about a little village on the seacoast, less than perfect but full of charm, a lived-in village with charming, lived-in characters; a village with a mysterious crumbling manor with many doors to another world: a world of rituals and ravenous crows and glassy-eyed knights and a trapped princess and an uncertain doom; the world of a castle, a castle in a book. Dream a dream of spells, two wizards and a wood witch and her daughter, and a strange bell that tolls from nowhere each night; dream a dream of a little romance, sweet and pure. A book about books, about the wonder of reading, about readers and their voyages and writers and their trials and victories. A book that loves books. The theme: the power of stories. A motif: what are the eyes saying, what sort of house exists behind those windows, look to the eyes. The prose: refined, delicate and lovely. The feel: wispy and evanescent. The result: it was like a nap in the park on a sunny, breezy day, a nap full of little dreams, all these little connected dreams within one enchanting dream. I imagine I was smiling throughout this happy dream; I woke from it still smiling.

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Title	:	The Bell at Sealey Head
Author	:	Patricia A. McKillip
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 277 pages
Published	:	September 2nd 2008 by Ace Books
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fiction. Magic. Romance

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Ratings: 3.99 From 2413 Users | 252 Reviews

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I'll be honest; I love McKillip's writing, but often find myself reading her work for the sheer beauty of the language, all the while a bit confused by the plot. However, The Bell at Sealey Headis a bit more straightforward than her work usually is, though the whole time I was reading it I kept asking myself "which myth is she using now?" Sealey Head is a small seaside town in an indeterminate time (though it feels a bit Victorian) and an indeterminate place (though it feels British). Gwyneth

Every evening, just at sundown, a ghostly bell rings just once in the village of Sealey Head. Most of its inhabitants don't even notice it anymore, but a couple of them wonder about its mystery, and an enigmatic stranger is determined, with their help, to solve it.This is the premise of THE BELL AT SEALEY HEAD, but the story is much richer and more layered the deeper you delve into it. There is the bookish daughter of the local merchant, Gwyneth, who is determined to write the story of the

I liked this a lot. The plot was less convoluted than usual, which is nice; I thought the setting, a small oceanside town, was nicely done; and I really liked the main romance (okay, maybe because it's between two appealingly bookish people). I thought McKillip handled nicely the interweaving of the stories, between present-day Sealey Head and the mysterious world inside Aislinn House. I did think she made the main characters a little passive at the end, just sitting there waiting to find out

The doors of a crumbling manor open into another world that lives under an enchantment of ritual. The only connection between the two worlds is the bell that tolls at sunset every day, until a stranger comes to town, determined to find out what lies behind the mystery of the bell. The Bell at Sealey Head is another one of Patricia McKillips dream-like fairy tales, and I liked it very much, particularly because there are so many book-obsessed characters in the novel, and the solution to the



A delightful and magical read. As she so often does McKillip evokes the sea.

The Bell at Sealey Head by Patricia McKillip was okay. I liked it, but it seemed to be lacking something--probably a better plot. It all seemed to have been solved rather quickly and the book doesn't leave much of an impression. The residents of Sealey Head are haunted by a bell that rings every evening just as the sun goes down. The bell has been heard for years and no one knows its true origin. One day, a scholar comes to town to investigate the bell and strange events begin to happen.Meh. I