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- Hardcover 592 pages (February 2006)
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
- ISBN: 0340828552
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The Nightingale’s Nest
This is the second of a sequence of three linked books that began
with ‘Swan Music’. The story, set in 1929, is that
of Pamela Griffe, a young woman widowed by the Great War, who goes
to work for the charming and eccentric art dealer Christopher Jarvis
and his wife Amanda. While there she meets John Ashe (subject of
the sinister portrait in ‘Swan Music’) for whom she
also begins to work, part-time. During this period she perforce
becomes the guardian of Ashe’s terrible secrets, and her
role in his life destroys one area of her life wile it secures
her future. This is a story about a strong woman discovering the
price of power and the nature of freedom. Pamela is one of my favourite
heroines and I particularly enjoyed
writing from her perspective. I particularly enjoyed writing from
the perspective of Pamela who is one of my most courageous, likeable – and
admirable – heroines.
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