The Hourglass

di Julie Parsons (Autore)

Pan Macmillan, 2014

Beyond high iron gates fastened shut with a length of chain, lies the stark, beautiful Trawbawn. Here, haunted by a dark, mysterious past and largely ignored by the people of nearby Skibbereen, lives the frail Lydia Beauchamp. But old Ma Beauchamp's private existence is interrupted when a stranger arrives - a young man called Adam who wanders into the vast grounds of Trawbawn and becomes one of Lydia's most welcome contacts with the outside world. When Lydia sets her new confidante a challenge, he eagerly accepts - Adam must travel to Dublin to find her estranged daughter. But it is a task tainted by an air of menace. For what terrible past has driven a daughter from her mother? And what true motive lies behind Adam's generous act? Soon the unlikely friends are entwined in a deadly game, and a pursuit born of an old lady's desire for peace mutates into a terrible, relentless need for revenge . . .

• Autore: Julie Parsons
• Editore: Pan Macmillan
• Anno: 2014
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 368 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• Peso: 572 gr.
• EAN: 9781447266310

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