This Rough Magic
by:
Mary Stewart (author)
British actress Lucy Waring believes there is no finer place to be "at liberty" than the sun-drenched isle of Corfu, the alleged locale for Shakespeare's The Tempest. Even the suspicious actions of the handsome, arrogant son of a famous actor cannot dampen her enthusiasm for this wonderland in...
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British actress Lucy Waring believes there is no finer place to be "at liberty" than the sun-drenched isle of Corfu, the alleged locale for Shakespeare's The Tempest. Even the suspicious actions of the handsome, arrogant son of a famous actor cannot dampen her enthusiasm for this wonderland in the Ionian Sea. Then a human corpse is carried ashore on the incoming tide ...
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Format: hardcover
Publish date: 1965
Publisher: Readers Book Club
Pages no: 252
Edition language: English
I'm done. Done with the book and done with Stewart. Her kind of romantic suspense really does not work for me on either romance side or the suspense side of things. Having read two of her books, I am left with a feeling that her stories are overly contrived, full of snobbery, looking down on pe...
Does anyone else write like Mary Stewart? Because if there is another Mary Stewart out there, I want to find her. Her books are the perfect combination of romance and suspense, set in the most beautiful places. I really enjoy the fact that they are contemporaries for the time that they were written....
I´m not sure why I like Mary Stewart´s books as much as I do, but it must have something to do with the way I feel when reading one of her books: [Source] Yes, she´s taking the reader on an adventure. And I don´t care how formulaic, unrealistic and farfetched her stories are and I can´t even g...
It took awhile, but I've come to a book that my mom and I don't necessarily agree on. She remembers this book fondly, while I have more ambivalent feelings about it. I was less than 8 pages in before I was ready to chuck it all and go to Corfu; Stewart's creation of the setting was downright se...
This one of my favorites of Stewarts! She really makes you want to travel the world!
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