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- Paperback 384 pages (February 2007)
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
- ISBN: 0340828595 (Hardback)
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A Spell of Swallows
‘A Spell of Swallows’ is the third, final – and
darkest - novel in the sequence that began with ‘Swan Music’.
The action is set in 1919. John Ashe, horribly damaged by his experiences
in the war, gazes down on the lovely English village of Eadenford
and says simply: ‘This’ll do.’ Haunted and driven
by terrible memories both of his childhood, and the bloody and
mismanaged Mesopotamian campaign, the quietly charismatic Ashe
sets about insinuating himself into village life, and particularly
that of the Reverend Saxon Mariner and his adored wife Vivien… This
is a story about the fragility of loyalty, love and respect when
they’re pitted against the dangerous pull of passion. I have
to say I shocked even myself.
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