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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
Copyright © Barbara Erskine 2016
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Cover photographs © Cristina Lichti / Arcangel Images (castle in fog); Shutterstock.com (flowers and berries).
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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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Source ISBN: 9780007513161
Ebook Edition © April 2017 ISBN: 9780007513185
Version: 2017-10-23
‘Evocative and haunting. [I was] every bit as captivated as I was when I was swept away by Lady of Hay. I have loved the journey and the history’
Sunday Times bestseller, Elizabeth Chadwick
‘Barbara is a master storyteller who knows just how to weave the twists and turns of a gripping thriller, with that unique and spell-binding blend of history and the supernatural … Every new book by Barbara is an event to be pleasurably anticipated’
Acclaimed historian and novelist, Alison Weir
‘The author’s storytelling talent is undeniable. Barbara Erskine can make us feel the cold, smell the filth and experience some of the fear of the power of evil men’
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‘Captivating storytelling, vivid, passionate characters, beautifully evoked and impeccably researched historical settings, and, best of all, those terrifying but beguiling ghosts that whisper to us from the past … You’ll be transfixed’
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Author Sophie Duffy
‘I cannot believe it is thirty years since Lady of Hay introduced me to a whole new interpretation of my favourite genre – historical fiction with a twist of ghostly thriller’
Joanna Hickson, author of First of the Tudors
Time
The past, present and future regarded as a continuous whole
Collins English Dictionary
A space of continued existence, as the interval between two successive events or acts, or the period through which an action, condition, or state continues
The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary
Oneirology
The science or subject of dreams, or of their interpretation
Oneiromancy
Divination by dreams
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