A Falcon for a Queen

Catherine Gaskin

За особеностите на екземпляра

Състояние:: Много добро
Забележка:: Леки следи на времето. Подпис.
Език:: Английски
Наличност:: 1 бр.

За изданието

Издателство:: Fontana Books
Град на издаване:: Glasgow
Година:: 1975 г.
Език:: Английски
Страници:: 317
Корици:: Меки
Категория:: Чужда проза

A gripping story of romance and mystery set in Victorian Scotland. Another unputdownable page-turner of secrets, passion and family duty from the ‘Queen of Storytellers’. After the death of her father, Kirsty Howard leaves their home in China and travels to be with her mother's family in the Scottish Highlands. It is here that her brother William has also recently died - after a hunting accident. With her Kirsty carries a scroll sent by William from his deathbed, with a cryptic message "She has killed ..."Arriving at Cluain, the old house and whisky distillery owned by her grandfather, Kirsty is drawn to the mysterious and moody Callum Sinclair, who roams the moors with his majestic falcon.She also meets the other locals who had known William - including the forbidding housekeeper, Mairi Sinclair. Over time, Kirsty learns the parts these strangers played in her brother’s life, and how her own fate is bound up by the places and people of this remote land. But nothing can prepare her for the truth that must be revealed... * About the author She was born in Dundalk Bay, Louth, Ireland in 1929. When she was only three months old, her parents moved to Australia, settling in Coogee, a suburb of Sydney, where she grew up. Her first novel This Other Eden, was written when she was 15 and published two years later. After her second novel, With Every Year, was published, she moved to London. Three best-sellers followed: Dust in Sunlight (1950), All Else is Folly (1951), and Daughter of the House (1952). She completed her best known work, Sara Dane, on her 25th birthday in 1954, and it was published in 1955. It sold more than 2 million copies, was translated into a number of other languages, and was made into a television series in Australia in 1982. Other novels included A Falcon for the Queen (1972) and The Summer of the Spanish Woman (1977).