3.5
Dark Angel
ByPublisher Description
On an April night in 1910, just after the appearance of Halley's comet, a man dies violently at an English manor called Winterscombe. More than half a century later, Victoria Cavendish tries to root out the secrets that have haunted three generations of her family. With the aid of a timeworn journal, she begins an unconventional voyage into the secrets of the past. As Victoria moves closer to the truth of what happened on that fateful night long ago, she uncovers a shocking saga of sex, love, and betrayal.
Traveling through two world wars and beyond, peopled by a cast of unforgettable characters,
is a mesmerizing novel about love and redemption.
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Meet readers like you in the Fable For You feed, designed to build bookish communitiesAbout Sally Beauman
Sally Beauman was born in Devon, England, and is a graduate of Cambridge University. She began her career as a critic and writer for
magazine and continued to write for leading periodicals in the US and the UK after returning to England. In 1970, she became the first recipient of the Catherine Pakenham Award for journalism, and at the age of twenty-four, was appointed editor of
magazine. Beauman has written for the
, the
and
, where she was arts editor.
Her novels, which include the
–bestselling sensation
, have been translated into over twenty languages and are bestsellers worldwide. In addition to her works of fiction, Beauman has published two nonfiction books based on the history and work of the Royal Shakespeare Company:
(edited by Beauman, with a foreword by His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, 1976), and
(1982).
Sally Beauman is married to the actor Alan Howard. They divide their time between London and a remote island in the Hebrides. They have one son and two grandchildren.
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