Review: Just what did Faraday hear?
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 2, 2014
The story is set in England in the early twentieth century. It's Christmas holidays for a boarding school adjacent to a cathedral, and all the students have left except the narrator, whose parents were in India; and Faraday, whose parents were dead. The two boys did not know each other well, but for a few days they became convenient companions. Faraday was the head choirboy for the cathedral, but he had just been disgraced and sacked for reasons he was reluctant to share with the narrator. He had a daring plan to regain favor, but it was dangerous and he needed the narrator's help.It's a marvelous story that offered a captivating view of English life in the early post-Victorian era, those halcyon days prior to the Great War. The story got increasing suspenseful as the two boys went on their desperate mission that led to a tragic end. Readers will have to decide for themselves if the boys really saw a ghost in the cathedral, and was Faraday hearing musical echoes from the past?