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Between Worlds
When a young woman who has been missing for months, turns up battered and bloodied, lying next to a headless corpse, the police are convinced that she is the killer - but why? The only clue is the murder weapon, an ancient sword dating from the 6th century, that has police and historians baffled. Refusing to talk, Emily is sent to a psychiatric
hospital for her own safety.
Dr Marian Griffiths is determined to get ahead in her career, and sees Emily as a way of doing that. Using hypnotherapy, she finally has a breakthrough and Emily begins to talk; but the story that unfolds couldn't possibly be true - could it?
Would you give up your life, for love?
hospital for her own safety.
Dr Marian Griffiths is determined to get ahead in her career, and sees Emily as a way of doing that. Using hypnotherapy, she finally has a breakthrough and Emily begins to talk; but the story that unfolds couldn't possibly be true - could it?
Would you give up your life, for love?
326 pages, ebook
Published October 12, 2016
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About the author
P.J. Roscoe
16 books51 followersI have written six multi award winning Historical & Supernatural novels, and Adventures of Faerie folk series for young children.
'Echoes'
'Freya's Child'
‘Between Worlds’
Where Rivers Meet
'Diary of Margery Blake'
'Diary of Betsy Shaw'
'Adventures of faerie folk, Volumes 1-4
THREE - A book of supernatural short stories
Survive Grief & Come Back to Life - my best selling non-fiction, inspired me to write 'mini' e-books so I could focus on a variety of issues that effect people when grieving:
How Do I...Deal with Stress while Grieving?
How Do I...Bridge the gap between me and my Partner while Grieving.
How Do I...Sleep while Grieving
I adore history & archaeology. I dance EVERY DAY and Sing EVERY five minutes!
www.Crimsoncloakpublishing.com
Waterstones/Amazon/B&N and so much more :)
'Echoes'
'Freya's Child'
‘Between Worlds’
Where Rivers Meet
'Diary of Margery Blake'
'Diary of Betsy Shaw'
'Adventures of faerie folk, Volumes 1-4
THREE - A book of supernatural short stories
Survive Grief & Come Back to Life - my best selling non-fiction, inspired me to write 'mini' e-books so I could focus on a variety of issues that effect people when grieving:
How Do I...Deal with Stress while Grieving?
How Do I...Bridge the gap between me and my Partner while Grieving.
How Do I...Sleep while Grieving
I adore history & archaeology. I dance EVERY DAY and Sing EVERY five minutes!
www.Crimsoncloakpublishing.com
Waterstones/Amazon/B&N and so much more :)
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April 19, 2022I found this difficult to follow at times. I'm a lover of deliberate breaks but switching from character to character within scenes is totally not my thing, I prefer a more clean cut of a style, because for me, if it runs smoothly, I can understand what's happening more.
I do like the overall plotting, and I do like Emily and she throws a good yarn to this hypnotist. I reckon if the story was re written and restructured differently, my opinions would differ.
I do like the overall plotting, and I do like Emily and she throws a good yarn to this hypnotist. I reckon if the story was re written and restructured differently, my opinions would differ.
March 22, 2020
I’ve just been reading a book by a well-established author, some of whose novels have been serialised on TV. Yet the book didn’t do anything for me. Reading it was hard work. I had recently purchased Between Worlds by PJ Roscoe and glancing at the blurb, I gave up boring myself to death and opted for something interesting instead.
And what a change it was!! Between Worlds grabbed me from the very first page and never lost me ... and not without reason. Roscoe is a talented writer, and in this book displays an exceptional sense of time and place. This is an erudite exploration of the Arthurian legends, not the fake and glamorous Camelot of Hollywood. This Camelot is much more gritty, infinitely more realistic, and entirely believable. The geography, the clothes, the food, the living standards, the customs and mannerisms of the era, all portray an impressively authentic picture of life in 600 A.D.
The story is summarised in the blurb so I won’t repeat it here other than to say that the concept of a modern young woman accidentally slipping through a time warp to find herself fourteen hundred years back in history, is utterly fascinating. Roscoe knows her history; Roscoe knows her psychology and psychiatry; Roscoe knows how to create real, three-dimensional characters that get under the reader’s skin; and Roscoe has a narrative gift. The inevitable result is a brilliant story, brilliantly told. I note some criticism elsewhere about the numerous points-of-view. I believe that such criticism, particularly in this era of tv and cinema, is pedantic. To me the many points of view add depth and breadth to the characters and allow the reader entry into this world, to be part of it, to observe it from within, to simply lose oneself in it and mingle with its people.
It is truly amazing, particularly in view of my early comments, how fine the line is between writers who get the lucky break that makes them household names and other writers, many of them superb writers like Roscoe, who don’t get the break and languish in relative obscurity. On the basis of this book, however, I can’t see Roscoe ‘languishing’ for long. I predict she is soon to be catapulted into the best-seller lists where she will comfortably rub shoulders with the best of them.
Often in my reviews I recommend the story to people who like that particular genre. But there’s something beyond genre here, something fascinating and universal. If you like reading, regardless of your preferences, you will not be able to put this book down. If you want to understand why I write so enthusiastically about Between Worlds, you will have to read it for yourself. Test my words. You will be glad you did.
And what a change it was!! Between Worlds grabbed me from the very first page and never lost me ... and not without reason. Roscoe is a talented writer, and in this book displays an exceptional sense of time and place. This is an erudite exploration of the Arthurian legends, not the fake and glamorous Camelot of Hollywood. This Camelot is much more gritty, infinitely more realistic, and entirely believable. The geography, the clothes, the food, the living standards, the customs and mannerisms of the era, all portray an impressively authentic picture of life in 600 A.D.
The story is summarised in the blurb so I won’t repeat it here other than to say that the concept of a modern young woman accidentally slipping through a time warp to find herself fourteen hundred years back in history, is utterly fascinating. Roscoe knows her history; Roscoe knows her psychology and psychiatry; Roscoe knows how to create real, three-dimensional characters that get under the reader’s skin; and Roscoe has a narrative gift. The inevitable result is a brilliant story, brilliantly told. I note some criticism elsewhere about the numerous points-of-view. I believe that such criticism, particularly in this era of tv and cinema, is pedantic. To me the many points of view add depth and breadth to the characters and allow the reader entry into this world, to be part of it, to observe it from within, to simply lose oneself in it and mingle with its people.
It is truly amazing, particularly in view of my early comments, how fine the line is between writers who get the lucky break that makes them household names and other writers, many of them superb writers like Roscoe, who don’t get the break and languish in relative obscurity. On the basis of this book, however, I can’t see Roscoe ‘languishing’ for long. I predict she is soon to be catapulted into the best-seller lists where she will comfortably rub shoulders with the best of them.
Often in my reviews I recommend the story to people who like that particular genre. But there’s something beyond genre here, something fascinating and universal. If you like reading, regardless of your preferences, you will not be able to put this book down. If you want to understand why I write so enthusiastically about Between Worlds, you will have to read it for yourself. Test my words. You will be glad you did.
May 18, 2020
I thoroughly enjoyed Between Worlds by P J Roscoe.
Emily is in a psychiatric hospital for her own safety. She’s been found covered in blood, next to a headless corpse. The police assume she is the killer, but the only clue they have is a murder weapon, an ancient sword, that dates back to the 6th Century. Historians are excited to see a sword so old and so unmarked. Police are baffled. The murder victim’s family want answers. But Emily isn’t talking.
Dr. Marian Griffiths, a psychiatrist at the hospital, is ambitious. She thinks if she can persuade Emily to talk, it will help to fast-track her career. However, Emily refuses to talk until Dr Griffiths suggests hypnotherapy.
Hypnotherapy provides some answers for Griffiths and Emily, but the story Emily tells can’t be true. Griffiths pushes Emily more and more, obsessing over the unbelievable story she is hearing.
Both the doctor and Emily ask themselves … is it true?
In the end, Emily must decide if she’ll give up her life for love?
Emily is in a psychiatric hospital for her own safety. She’s been found covered in blood, next to a headless corpse. The police assume she is the killer, but the only clue they have is a murder weapon, an ancient sword, that dates back to the 6th Century. Historians are excited to see a sword so old and so unmarked. Police are baffled. The murder victim’s family want answers. But Emily isn’t talking.
Dr. Marian Griffiths, a psychiatrist at the hospital, is ambitious. She thinks if she can persuade Emily to talk, it will help to fast-track her career. However, Emily refuses to talk until Dr Griffiths suggests hypnotherapy.
Hypnotherapy provides some answers for Griffiths and Emily, but the story Emily tells can’t be true. Griffiths pushes Emily more and more, obsessing over the unbelievable story she is hearing.
Both the doctor and Emily ask themselves … is it true?
In the end, Emily must decide if she’ll give up her life for love?
March 22, 2020
I really, really loved this story. It was completely absorbing and one of those that you can disappear into the pages. I can't recommend it enough. You can read my full review here, and don't forget to follow for all my reviews.
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July 8, 2017
Emily is a young girl with a difficult childhood, her parents had been murdered and the perpetrator never been found. Now she is in psychological ward, but this time because she is the suspect for a murder. She was found next to a dead security guard with the murder weapon in her hands. However, she was in a devastated state and the weapon was a sword from 6th century. On top of that she had been missing for 7 months before she was found. Under hypnosis her story slowly unfolds, she had gone through a time slip and stayed in England of the 6th century for 7 months where she met King Arthur and fell in love with one of his knights, Tristan.
This is an amazing story and particularly the part on the 6th century is action-packed and extremely suspenseful. Violent fights and genuine descriptions of the everyday life give a realistic picture of the tough existence of that time. However, erotic scenes and the passion of Emily’s and Tristan’s love make up for that. The characters are well developed and the jumps between past and present give the book an additional edge. The author’s style of writing really appealed to me and the fast pace makes this book a page-turner.
What was not to my taste were the many points of view in the book. The frame story which is a bit overloaded anyway, was told in third person in the perspectives of too many characters, some of these sections were not needed at all, they were even repetitve in terms of information. I also think it would be more logical to have the frame story told in third person only, it was a bit strange to have parts of it reported by Emily in first person. Then it became really unlogical that parts of the 6th century story were written in third person, even though this story is told / relived by Emily only - here everything should have been in first person by Emily.
This is an amazing story and particularly the part on the 6th century is action-packed and extremely suspenseful. Violent fights and genuine descriptions of the everyday life give a realistic picture of the tough existence of that time. However, erotic scenes and the passion of Emily’s and Tristan’s love make up for that. The characters are well developed and the jumps between past and present give the book an additional edge. The author’s style of writing really appealed to me and the fast pace makes this book a page-turner.
What was not to my taste were the many points of view in the book. The frame story which is a bit overloaded anyway, was told in third person in the perspectives of too many characters, some of these sections were not needed at all, they were even repetitve in terms of information. I also think it would be more logical to have the frame story told in third person only, it was a bit strange to have parts of it reported by Emily in first person. Then it became really unlogical that parts of the 6th century story were written in third person, even though this story is told / relived by Emily only - here everything should have been in first person by Emily.
September 12, 2025
The concept of this book is good, but the writing would benefit from proof reading, some serious editing, and use of a dictionary (e.g. Horses have reins, not reigns; and swords don't have handles, they have hilts - and the bit on top of the "handle" is called a pommel, not a hilt.)
I also found it hard to fathom why the author of several historical articles (and therefore, presumably with some knowledge of history) would set much of the 6th century action of the novel in a Norman castle which would not have been built until 500 years afterwards. I found the general lack of care in the writing was very annoying and it got in the way of what could have been a gripping storyline.
I also found it hard to fathom why the author of several historical articles (and therefore, presumably with some knowledge of history) would set much of the 6th century action of the novel in a Norman castle which would not have been built until 500 years afterwards. I found the general lack of care in the writing was very annoying and it got in the way of what could have been a gripping storyline.
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