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    Ferney: A beautifully written time-slip novel

    By James Long

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    One of the most brilliant timeslip novels ever written, Ferney will appeal to fans of The Time Traveller's Wife and Life After Life.

    When Mike and Gally Martin move to a cottage in Somerset, it's to make a new start. But the relationship comes under strain when Gally forms an increasingly close attachment to an old countryman, Ferney, who seems to know everything about her.

    What is it that draws them together? Reluctantly at first, then with more urgency as he feels time slipping away, Ferney compels Gally to understand their connection - and to face an inexplicable truth about their shared past.

    A passionate love story that spans the centuries, fall under the spell of Ferney.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster UK
    Release dateOct 22, 2015
    ISBN9781471142994
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    Ferney: A beautifully written time-slip novel
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    James Long

    James Long has been making theatre since 1995. He directs the Theatre Replacement with Maiko Bae Yamamoto. As a freelance actor and director, he has had the pleasure of working with Rumble Productions, Neworld Theatre, Cindy Mochizuki, urban ink, Leaky Heaven Circus, The Chop, The Only Animal, Stan’s Cafe, CBC Radio, and Electric Company Theatre, among many others. He is a graduate of Simon Fraser University. In 2015, Talonbooks published his co-written play Winners and Losers.

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    • 3/5
      I first read this book back in 1999 and I have to say that I didn't think much of it, the ending annoyed me and I put it aside on the top shelf where it remained, gathering dust until recently.
      A couple of weeks ago people in my book club began mentioning it and raving about it as a wonderful read...I thought I would give it another try and I am glad I did.
      This time around I was enthralled and couldn't put it down, I read it every chance I got. The story of the reincarnation of two kindred spirits through the ages held me in it's spell and this time I loved the ending. Perhaps knowing that there is now a sequel out there made it more acceptable? I was not left hanging and wondering what Gally would do now...with no answers.
      Ferney still annoyed me somewhat, the way he stepped in, discarded Mike as of no importance and trampled on Gally's marriage as having no significance made me angry! Her insipid acceptance that Ferney was right also peeved me but the historical, twisted story won me over in the end.
    • 5/5
      this book is simply fantastic. Incredibly well written and researched
      10/10
    • 5/5
      I loved this tale, ranging back and forth thru time, of 2 people who have been reincarnated over and over, for hundreds of years, generally in the same locale in England. This cycle is somehow affected by the ancient Bag Stone, a menhir-type erection in the area. In the present life, Gally deals with fears from unrecognized past lives, and the conflict of discovering her longstanding lover, now an old man, when she moves to her historic locale with her present husband. The author adeptly brings us into the emotions of the novel while also intertwining some history.

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    • 5/5
      I picked up Ferney as the third book in my '3 for 2' offer, without knowing the first thing about it. The cover drew me and the blurb on the back sounded interesting so I thought I'd give it a whirl.

      I'm so glad I was tempted because it's such a fantastic book. A love story spanning countless years (and lifetimes), and I really, really felt for Gally and Ferney, imagining how they must have struggled to find each other in some of their lifetimes. I loved when they managed to get together at the same time in their lives and hated when they overshot each other through no fault of their own. Their very first lifetime together actually moved me when it was revealed exactly what caused them to be so intertwined.

      I had a real problem with Gally's husband though......what a misery he was...........but then I wonder how my own spouse would be if I were in
      Gally's position........probably no different.......however, still can't 'take' to him *shrug*. I just wanted Gally and Ferney to be together forever and it pained me when they weren't or had interruptions.

      I didn't see the 2 big revelations at the end coming though. It came as such a shock. I almost wept when I found out where Gally had been prior to being 'this' Gally (that makes no sense, I know......you'll HAVE to read it) and the end twist was so beautiful but bittersweet at the same time. It left me thinking how that would work out for them both, for days on end after finishing the book.

      Such a beautiful, thought provoking book and one that is definitely worth the read, even if it's not your usual type of reading material.

      I keep wondering now if I share my present life with loved ones I've spent time with in other lifetimes. I'd like to hope so.

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    • 3/5
      I read Long's second novel, Silence and Shadows (2002), for review when it first came out, and liked it enough that I went out and bought myself a copy of its predecessor. Shamefully, it's taken all this while for Ferney to jump off the shelf and into my hands. More or less, the wait has been worth it.

      Young couple Mike and Gally Martin are searching for a new house somewhere in the country to offer Gally a change of scenery so she can forget a miscarriage and the subsequent breakdown. They find a cottage in the English Southwest, in rural Somerset; it's a fixer-upper that's more fix than currently up, but Gally is instantly drawn to it As By An Arcane Force and insists that none other will do. Associated with the house is an elderly local called Ferney, who seems to recognize her; and soon Gally is drawn to him, too, as if she has known him for a long time . . . a very long time.

      Reincarnation fantasies are comparatively scarce and good ones even more so, so Ferney is a fair treat. That said, there were occasional longueurs; I'd have been happier had the book been some 25% shorter. At the same time, the slow build does definitely add to the power of the later sequences, so who knows? The characters of Gally and to a lesser extent Ferney are pleasingly complex and real; I wish the same could be said of Mike's. (The book's essentially a three-hander; all other characters are peripheral, although their influence on the plot may not be.) Overall, then, the book's not a masterpiece -- and there are a few resoundingly Thog's Masterclassish lines -- but it certainly has enough by way of the very good to be worth the reader's time. A keeper.

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    • 4/5
      Ferney by James LongThis novel is immense in its breadth and concept. In fact it is extraordinary, breathtaking and at times too bewildering to get your head round. And those of us with a spiritual inclination toward karma and reincarnation, past lives and rebirth will be scurrying to meditate on these new possibilities!!Yet on another level the story is astonishingly simple in terms of contemporary time travel fiction. But, and this is a big but, in my opinion the execution of the tale doesn’t do justice to its premise and promise. I am sorry to have been so scathing, I feel caught in my own paradox.It is so long winded. The opening chapters did not consistently engage my interest and I fear some readers may be lost before they can get into this deceptively astounding book.So much of it is written from the historical perspective that it reads like a reference book in parts. Yet there are some fundamental truths within the book that light up my heart, ‘It was all about keeping a good balance with the world’ and ‘Surely homespun is the real thing?’The contemporary characters of Ferney and Gally seem inconsistent with their ‘historical’ selves at times and I had a sense of the ethereal particularly with Gally.Poor Mike is almost a cardboard cut out. Full of knowledge and understanding but there seems no substance to him. He seems a literary tool, a function not a person.To say I didn’t like the book would be so so very wrong. It’s still floating around the recesses of my brain demanding more of me than maybe I have given it so far. I think the ideas are greater than the mechanics of the writing. And so, maybe a Marmite book? I’m off now to read the sequel…… I’ll get back to you….