Purchase
Minotaur Books
August 2007
On Sale: August 7, 2007
336 pages
ISBN: 0312368968
EAN: 9780312368968
Hardcover
Add to Wish List
Mystery
It is the year 1910 and the bloodstained body of an unknown woman is found on the grounds of Sir Henry Chetwyndβs Shropshire estate. A reluctant heir to the estate, Sebastian Chetwynd is already battling with divided loyalties: his ambition for a career of his own and his fatherβs expectation that he follow in his footsteps, and his duty to marry for money when he is in love with Louisa, a student doctor and supporter of womenβs rights. Unknown to the Chetwynds, there is Hannah, living in London, who has lost her memory of everything that happened in the dozen years previous to a serious accident. In an attempt to unravel her past, Hannah writes down the story of her life as far as she can remember it. As she reaches out to grasp and piece together the fragments of those missing years, it seems that the ongoing murder investigation in Shropshire could hold the key. Switching between troubled South Africa in the last years of the nineteenth century and the murder in England ten years later, Marjorie Ecclesβs delicate narrative reveals the lies and deceptions that have lain beneath the veneer of polite Edwardian society.
| 
© 2003-2026