These glimpses weave seamlessly into a full blown mystery, not only about the identity of the serial killer mutilating women, but about the hidden past of the Jago family. Talk about hooking the reader! The author also sprinkles in intriguing glimpses into the mystery of Dita Varga’s past, making the reader want to know more.

The story unfolds beautifully, starting literally on the very first page when the main character finds a naked stranger in her apartment. Can she solve the riddle of the Jago family’s past before coming face-to-face with a demon?Įchoes in the Darkness is a wonderfully light read, which I know sounds like an odd thing to say about a gothic romance – but it’s true. But when circumstances force her to flee from the looming danger of her past, she encounters a family whose twisted puzzles hide a darkness far worse than anything she’s encountered before. Some just have darker secrets than others … Dita Varga knows this all too well, having secrets of her own.

Title: Echoes in the Darkness by Jane GodmanĮveryone has secrets.

And at its centre is placed a specific house, a real home - Mirosław Bałka's house in Otwock, northern Poland, which served as a residential and artistic centre between 20. Three narratives - fairy tale, mythology and metafiction - are used to capture it. Three types of landscapes, borderlands, lowlands and peaks, respectively Šumava (Böhmerwald), the Puszta and the Tatra Mountains, provide the initial framework for thinking, three types of ideal landscapes to which the personal and shared ideas of specific (family, municipal, national) communities are linked. Under the title Home and Abroad, an effort to overcome the dichotomy of man and return to the core - to 'reconstruct home' - is hidden. But is he right? Is culture really prior to nature, man prior to the world? And is it even necessary to separate them from each other? These are just some of the questions posed by the first of the projects preceding the preparation of the new permanent exhibition of the Central European Forum Olomouc. * 'Landscapes are culture before they are nature constructs of the imagination projected onto the wood and water and rock … But it should also be acknowledged that once a certain idea of landscape, a myth or vision, establishes itself in an actual place, it has a peculiar way of muddling categories, of making metaphors more real than their referents, of becoming, in fact, part of the scene,“ writes Simon Schama. Catalogue of the exhibition organized by the Olomouc Museum of Art - Central European Forum in 2022.