6/25/2023 0 Comments Into the water hawkins![]() ![]() Her attention, instead, follows the entangled lives of villagers in whose closets hang enough skeletons for the New Orleans and New York City Halloween parades combined.Īmong the most haunted characters is Nel’s sister Jules. Further description to bring to life the fictional northern England village of Beckford is scant.Īnd the dark lure of the water Hawkins tells of suggests a theme never fully realized. Unfortunately, this image of the haunting spot is about as far as Hawkins gets in establishing an atmospheric sense of place, so essential to a thriller. Above looms the grey slate cliff: a dare, a provocation.” The water, dark and glassy, hides what lies beneath: weeds to entangle you, to drag you down jagged rocks to slice through flesh. The river, Nel writes, “cuts like steel through the soft Cheviot Hills” and it’s “a deathly place. Excerpts from the manuscript offer some of “Into the Water’s” more evocative writing. Before she died, Abbott was at work on a book, “The Drowning Pool,” that detailed the drownings of many women in this pool over the centuries. ![]() Was her death a suicide, or was she murdered? And was it just coincidental that Abbott’s death followed another recent drowning in the same spot of a teenage girl?Ībbott’s photographs and writings suggest that she was obsessed with suicide. ![]() A photographer and a writer, Abbott drowned in a pool formed at the bend of a river. Hawkins builds her story around the death of single mother Nel Abbott. ![]()
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