This Rough Magic
by:
Mary Stewart (author)
When Lucy's sister Phyllida suggests that she join her for a quiet holiday on the island of Corfu, Lucy is overjoyed. Her work as an actress has temporarily come to a halt. But the peaceful idyll does not last long. A series of incidents, seemingly unconnected - but all surrounded in mystery -...
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When Lucy's sister Phyllida suggests that she join her for a quiet holiday on the island of Corfu, Lucy is overjoyed. Her work as an actress has temporarily come to a halt. But the peaceful idyll does not last long. A series of incidents, seemingly unconnected - but all surrounded in mystery - throws Lucy's life into a dangerous spin, as fear, danger and death - as well as romance - supplant the former tranquillity.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781444720501 (1444720503)
Publish date: 2011-02-01
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Pages no: 392
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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