Brother Cadfael sets out to visit the Saint Giles leper colony outside Shrewsbury, knowing that a grand wedding is due to take place at the Abbey of Saint Peter & Saint Paul. As he arrives at Saint Giles the nuptial party passes the colony's gates. He sees the fragile bride, looking like a prisoner between her two stern guardians, & the groom, an arrogant, fleshy aristocrat old enough to be her grandfather. With his usual astuteness he suspects that this union may be more damned than blessed. He is horrifically proved right when a savage murder disrupts the May-December marriage leaving Brother Cadfael with a dark & terrible mystery to solve. For the key to the killing
- & a secret
- are hidden among the lepers of Saint Giles & Brother Cadfael's skills must diagnose a sickness, not of the body, but of a twisted soul. This book has 320 pages & is 12.6 x 19.7 x 1.9 cm

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Ellie Duggan is getting married in seven weeks. But just before she sets off for a fun-filled New York hen party weekend, she finds a letter addressed to her sister Caroline. Dated only weeks before Caroline died in a tragic accident, it contains some startling information which forces Ellie to face some truths about herself, Carolines death
- & even her forthcoming marriage. Ellie has spent the three years since Carolines death running from the truth. But as the weekend in New York comes to a close, she makes a drastic decision. As Ellie finally lays old ghosts to rest, she realises that the truth can set you free. But will she be willing to take the risk?
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Tina Craig longs to escape her violent husb&. She works all the hours God sends to save up enough money to leave him, also volunteering in a charity shop to avoid her unhappy home.

Whilst going through the pockets of a second-hand suit, she comes across an old letter, the envelope firmly sealed & unfranked. Tina opens the letter & reads it
- a decision that will alter the course of her life for ever...

Billy Stirling knows he has been a fool, but hopes he can put things right.

On 4th September 1939 he sits down to write the letter he hopes will change his future. It does
- in more ways than he can ever imagine...

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781472229953
• Author: Kathryn Hughes
• Publisher: Headline
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 396
• Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 2.5cm















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"A uniquely charming & enticing journey through a remarkable life. Coward's own record is made all the more delightful by the wise & helpful interpolations of Barry Day, the soundest authority on the Master that there is." Stephen Fry "A far more complex figure than the one we thought we knew. Here you get the truly private Noel" Sheridan Morley With virtually all the letters in this volume previously unpublished
- this is a revealing new insight into the private life of a legendary figure. Coward's multi-faceted talent as an actor, writer, composer, producer & even as a war-time spy (!), brought him into close contact with the great, the good & the merely ambitious in film, literature & politics. With letters to & from the likes of: George Bernard Shaw, Virginia Woolf, Winston Churchill, Greta Garbo (she wrote asking him to marry her), Marlene Dietriech, Ian Fleming, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Fred Astaire, Charlie Chaplin, FD Roosevelt, the Queen Mother & many more, the picture that emerges is a series of vivid sketches of Noel Coward's private relationships, & a re-examination of the man himself. Deliciously insightful, witty, perfectly bitchy, wise, loving & often surprisingly moving, this extraordinary collection gives us Coward at his crackling best. A sublime portrait of a unique artist who made an indelible mark on the 20th century, from the Blitz to the Ritz & beyond.
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'A uniquely charming & enticing journey through a remarkable life. Coward's own record is made all the more delightful by the wise & helpful interpolations of Barry Day, the soundest authority on the Master that there is.' Stephen Fry ' Precise, witty, remarkably observed & gloriously English' Dame Judi Dench ' Barry Day's analysis is both perceptive & irresistible' Lord Richard Attenborough With virtually all the letters in this volume previously unpublished
- this is a revealing new insight into the private life of a legendary figure. Coward's multi-faceted talent as an actor, writer, composer, producer & even as a war-time spy (!), brought him into close contact with the great, the good & the merely ambitious in film, literature & politics. With letters to & from the likes of: George Bernard Shaw, Virginia Woolf, Winston Churchill, Greta Garbo (she wrote asking him to marry her), Marlene Dietriech, Ian Fleming, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Fred Astaire, Charlie Chaplin, FD Roosevelt, the Queen Mother & many more, the picture that emerges is a series of vivid sketches of Noel Coward's private relationships, & a re-examination of the man himself. Deliciously insightful, witty, perfectly bitchy, wise, loving & often surprisingly moving, this extraordinary collection gives us Coward at his crackling best. A sublime portrait of a unique artist who made an indelible mark on the 20th century, from the Blitz to the Ritz & beyond.
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