The Wild Island
Here, Jemima Shore, investigator and TV personality, arrives at Inverness Station for a Highland holiday. The sun is shining. Paradise, she thinks. But at that moment, she hears a voice: All this way for a funeral.So begins an adventure far removed from Jemima's visions of heather-covered hills, crystal-clear streams, romantic men in kilts, fairy-tale castles....Instead, she is plunged into the strange world of the aristocratic Beauregard family with its tensions, its jealousies, and its violence, in many ways a primitive world dominated by the land and its possessing. The setting is the Wild Island itself, sometimes enchanting, but too often…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-393-33189-9
- EAN: 9780393331899
- Produktnummer: 3086743
- Verlag: W W Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1980
- Seitenangabe: 196 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.1 cm 254 g
- Gewicht: 254
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The acclaimed English biographer Lady Antonia Fraser is also a talented mystery writer whose Quiet As a Nun was filmed for the Mystery! series on PBS.
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