The Night Visitors

The Night Visitors by Jenn Ashworth is a fictional and epistolary novel about two main characters, Orla Nelson and Alice Wells, who communicate throughout the book via email. Furthermore, two characters are only distantly linked by blood. They can all trace their ancestors down to Barbara and their legendary ancestor Hattie Soak. Orla learns about their great ancestor Hattie Soak through Alice’s book, and how he died strangely in the awful scene of the murder (Ashworth and Richard 2).

Standout Qualities

The novel offers a few standout qualities that no reader should miss. The author has employed the use of letters to pass the message across as two main characters exchange epistles through emails. The plot is in the form of the conversation between Alice and Orla where they reveal their worst fears and heavily guarded secrets to each other. Nonetheless, their letters do not disclose everything about themselves.

Use of Paradox

Another quite salient feature about the novel is the use of use paradox or contradictory statements. The author makes it open to the readers to see that much as the emails revealed a lot about the two characters, they also did not reveal what the characters did not say about themselves. Furthermore, through the exchange of emails, the bond between the two seemed to be growing stronger. However, their subsequent letters, bring them to the point that their relationship starts to decline.

Work Cited

Ashworth, Jennifer Marie, and Richard V. Hirst. “The night visitors.” (2017).