The Nightingale's Nest

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Left a young widow by the Great War the resourceful Pamela goes to work for the Jarvises a charmingly eccentric couple whose elegant Highgate house is a mecca for artists She is particularly drawn to the work of waiflike Suzannah Murchie whose powerful portraits adorn the Jarvises' walls & to the subject of one of the portraits John Ashe Ashe is a man of contradictions-handsome but horribly disfigured; ruthless but charitable; influential but secretive When she agrees to work for him Pamela is only half aware that she is entering into a pact with the devil-a pact which she gradually determines to turn to her own advantage For Ashe has gained wealth & influence by preying on the weaknesses of others & although Pamela keeps her distance from his activities she cannot avoid being tainted by them Against a background of 'twenties London Sarah Harrison's rich & engrossing novel charts an independent-minded woman's discovery of the nature of power & the price of peace