Cecelia Ahern is a British writer who was chosen by Oprah's book club for another of her books. (I didn't know that until after I read this one, it may have stopped me if I had.) Amazon describes the Oprah book as a gothic thriller and this one is in the same vein. A spoiled Dublin teenager's father kills himself and leaves the family bankrupt. Sixteen-year-old Tamara and her mother are forced to move to the Irish countryside to live with her aunt and uncle. She knows immediately that strange things are happening but her life has changed so drastically that it takes some time to figure out what is going on. Her mother is almost catatonic with what she thinks is grief, her aunt hovers unbearably around them, her uncle is mostly absent and Tamara is left with the alien landscape of the country, the castle ruin nearby and a nun who lives in a small convent nearby and befriends her. In the midst of this she finds a blank journal in which she can read every morning what will happen the next day. The journal helps her solve the mystery and save her family. It's not nearly as strange as it sounds, but it does kind of read like a period thriller instead of something in the present.
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