Set in York at the end of the 19th century, this is a novel about three interwoven lives - Louisa Elliott and her cousin Edward, tied by family affection and Edward's love for her, and divided by the married man that Louisa loves and elopes with, only to find herself abandoned and outcast.
One long hot summer in the 1880s Bram Stoker escaped to Whitby from the pressures of theatre life in London. These months are unaccounted for in life of the irish-born theatre manager, and around them Ann Roberts has woven a passionate, mysterious and enthralling fiction. In Whitby he has an intense and dangerous affair with a young fisherlass ...
Rarely has a first novel received the outpouring of international praise that greeted Roberts' Louisa Elliott. Now comes the story of Louisa's legacy to her descendants. As World War I approaches, cousins Liam and Georgina find themselves helplessly attracted to one another. Sixty years later, Zoe and Stephen, also Elliott descendants, piece ...
Continuing the story of the historical novel "Louisa Elliot", this is a tale of lost innocence, family conflict and an overwhelming but impossible love.
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