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THE LAST DAYS OF LEDA GREY
A blazing summer, smouldering secrets, and a mysterious
past brought to light in a silent screen beauty's last days
past brought to light in a silent screen beauty's last days
Fox's vivid, sensual prose is as seductive as a siren's song, drawing you into a shadowy world of obsession and guilt.' Heat Compared to Sarah Waters by both The Times and the Guardian, Essie Fox returns with this haunting novel - her first set in the 20th Century, delving back into a mystery from the silent screen era.
During the oppressive heat wave of 1976 a young journalist, Ed Peters, finds an Edwardian photograph in a junk shop in the Brighton Lanes. It shows an alluring, dark-haired girl, an actress whose name was Leda Grey.
Leda Grey is living still, in a decaying cliff-top house once shared with a man called Charles Beauvois, a director of early silent film. As Beauvois's lover and his muse, Leda often starred in scenes where stage magic and trick photography were used to astonishing effect.
But, while playing a cursed Egyptian queen, the fantasies captured on celluloid were echoed in reality when Beauvois suspected a love affair between Leda and her leading man. A horrific accident left Leda abandoned and alone for more than half a century - until Ed Peters finds her and hears the secrets of her past, resulting in a climax more haunting than any to be found in the silent films of Charles Beauvois.
Essie Fox divides her time between Windsor and Bow in the East End of London. Her debut novel, THE SOMNAMBULIST, was selected for the Channel 4 Book Club and was shortlisted in the New Writer of the Year category of the 2012 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS. She is the author of The Virtual Victorian: www.virtualvictorian.blogspot.com
Essie Fox is the author of THE SOMNAMBULIST, ELIJAH'S MERMAID, and THE GODDESS AND THE THIEF, all published by Orion. Her first novel was sold to Massolit in Sweden, Castelvecchi in Italy among others, it was picked for the TV Book Club 2012 and shortlisted in the New Writer of Year category for the Specsavers National Book Awards.
THE LAST DAYS OF LEDA GREY will be published in the UK in November, along with the audiobook.
Essie's novels are the perfect blend of imagination, intrigue and mystery delighting readers with her vivid descriptions and her sense of place. When reading THE LAST DAYS OF LEDA GREY, I immediately entered this fascinating world, seeing before me the scenes as if sitting in a cinema in 1910
Essie is meticulous with her research and her The Virtual Victorian blog offers many insights into the Victorian era, as well as her own writing. It gets hits from countries all over the world, and you can find more information also on her website. She also has the Eclectic Edwardian blog, covering the period of THE LAST DAYS OF LEDA GREY and does book reviews as The Fiction Fox.
During the oppressive heat wave of 1976 a young journalist, Ed Peters, finds an Edwardian photograph in a junk shop in the Brighton Lanes. It shows an alluring, dark-haired girl, an actress whose name was Leda Grey.
Leda Grey is living still, in a decaying cliff-top house once shared with a man called Charles Beauvois, a director of early silent film. As Beauvois's lover and his muse, Leda often starred in scenes where stage magic and trick photography were used to astonishing effect.
But, while playing a cursed Egyptian queen, the fantasies captured on celluloid were echoed in reality when Beauvois suspected a love affair between Leda and her leading man. A horrific accident left Leda abandoned and alone for more than half a century - until Ed Peters finds her and hears the secrets of her past, resulting in a climax more haunting than any to be found in the silent films of Charles Beauvois.
Essie Fox divides her time between Windsor and Bow in the East End of London. Her debut novel, THE SOMNAMBULIST, was selected for the Channel 4 Book Club and was shortlisted in the New Writer of the Year category of the 2012 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS. She is the author of The Virtual Victorian: www.virtualvictorian.blogspot.com
Essie Fox is the author of THE SOMNAMBULIST, ELIJAH'S MERMAID, and THE GODDESS AND THE THIEF, all published by Orion. Her first novel was sold to Massolit in Sweden, Castelvecchi in Italy among others, it was picked for the TV Book Club 2012 and shortlisted in the New Writer of Year category for the Specsavers National Book Awards.
THE LAST DAYS OF LEDA GREY will be published in the UK in November, along with the audiobook.
Essie's novels are the perfect blend of imagination, intrigue and mystery delighting readers with her vivid descriptions and her sense of place. When reading THE LAST DAYS OF LEDA GREY, I immediately entered this fascinating world, seeing before me the scenes as if sitting in a cinema in 1910
Essie is meticulous with her research and her The Virtual Victorian blog offers many insights into the Victorian era, as well as her own writing. It gets hits from countries all over the world, and you can find more information also on her website. She also has the Eclectic Edwardian blog, covering the period of THE LAST DAYS OF LEDA GREY and does book reviews as The Fiction Fox.
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Published 2016-11-01 by Orion |