My Life at Rose Red: The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer    Editor Joyce Reardon Order:  USA  Can Hyperion, 2002 (2001) Hardcover, Paperback     Reviewed by Mary Ann Smyth My Life at Rose Red reads like a diary. The reader is asked to believe that this is, in fact, the diary of a young woman who married in 1907 and, after an extended honeymoon trip around the world, lived in a 65,000 square foot mansion ... castle, palace, whatever one calls something that big. Her occasional guests are not the only ones to get lost in this vast acreage of a house. Ellen herself makes a wrong turn now and again and happens upon a room she hadn't seen before. Sounds idyllic. But was it? A workman is murdered; a woman disappears into the very walls of the house. Ellen comes to think of the mansion as a live being, one who demands that the construction of the house should never stop. Ellen and her 'handmaiden' - black Sukeena - exist day by day in a pulsing house and with a man whose sexual appetites know no boundaries. More people disappear. The partner of Ellen's husband is a suicide. Then the truly unthinkable happens. But I can't tell you what that is. You must read the book to find out for yourself, and to decide whether this is, indeed, a work of fact or fiction. Note: Opinions expressed in reviews and articles on this site are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of BookLoons. Find more Historical books on our Shelves or in our book Reviews