I wasn’t enthralled by it and nearly abandoned it after the first few chapters set in 1968, because the characters didn’t come over as real and the writing in accents was awful. Lying unconscious and near death, Celia’s spirit journeys backward to a time four centuries earlier when another Celia loved another Marsdon. Richard’s growing depression creates a crisis in Celia, and she falls desperately ill. We meet Richard and Celia Marsdon, an attractive young couple, whose family traces its lineage back to medieval England. This story of troubled love takes place simultaneously during two periods of time: today and 400 years ago. I thought I’d read the book years ago, not long after it came out, but as soon as I began what I thought was a re-read I realised that this was completely new to me – I just thought I’d read it because I’d visited Ightham Mote, a beautiful 14th century moated manor house in Kent where part of Green Darkness is set. The bulk of the tale takes place in a goodwife bustling past - for certain ladies, a surely popular expansive indulgence.I finished reading Green Darkness a couple of weeks ago and have been wondering what to write about it or whether to write anything at all. Julian, rescues Celia and Richard/Stephan while offering metaphysical speculations which you needn't worry about.
Akananda, to free his 20th century victims from possession by other lives, relives the Tudor tragedy as Dr. The monk, after breaking his vows, impregnated Celia who was walled up alive by a demented and evil woman. Akananda, attuned to verities beyond the veil, soon realizes that this Celia has been slipping in and out of the life of poor Celia de Bohun, who in the reigns of Edward IV, Mary and Elizabeth, progressively succumbed to a doomed passion for the upright Brother Stephen. And Sir Richard, cold and hostile, approaches near-madness. Celia, in the midst of a weekend house party and Tudor ruins, hears disembodied voices speaking in accents wild, feels an unexplained terror and, suddenly suffocating, winds up in a hospital near death. From the beginning, rum emanations undermine the apparently serene marriage of Celia Marsden, American wife of Sir Richard on their ancient Sussex estate.
A soup to nuts Gothic long enough to last through the vernal equinox.
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