Hardcover Book Gad's Hall & The Haunting of Gad's Hall Norah Lofts 1979

Hardcover Book Gad's Hall & The Haunting of Gad's Hall by Norah Lofts Nelson Doubleday Inc. 1979  Two novels of the supernatural in one book! Book and dust cover are in Good pre-owned condition  Size: 8.5" x 4.75" x 1.5", weight 21 oz, 532 pages Gad's Hall: An unutterable secret, kept so securely by the women of Gad's Hall a century past, creates havoc for its present-day occupants.  Set in Lofts' favorite fictional setting, the environs of her imaginary Baildon, Suffolk, this novel is divided into two parts: Part I, set in the author's present, in which a modern family moves into the titular Gad's Hall only to find that there are certain strange manifestations there, connected to a locked attic room with no key; and Part II, set in the mid-19th century, in which we learn what exactly went on in that room and why it came to be locked permanently. The Haunting of Gad's Hall: The sequel to Gad's Hall, and the earlier book should definitely be read before this one; not only the supernatural element but other plot strands as well originate in the first book and depend on it for full understanding, and almost all of the characters are continuing here and can be known and understood much better having read the first.  Again, there is a Part I and Part II structure, but reversed; here, Part I continues with the story of the mid-Victorian occupants of the Hall, and Part II returns to the 20th-century family that's moved in. TB40