Dark Angel

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t is at WinterscomLe, tke great country seat of tke Cavendisli family, tkat a kouse-party gathers in 1910 to celetrate tke passage of Halley's cornet over soutkem England. Among tkose present are tke four Cavendisk sons, Boy, Acland, Freddie and Steenie; tke powerful Jewisk financier, Montague Stem; a difficult and precocious ten-year-old, Constance Skawcross, and ker fatker wko is kaving an affair witk tke mistress of tke kouse. It is a krilliant party, Lut, traumatically for Constance, it is marred ky a korrific accident.
Over kalf a century later, Victoria Cavendisk kegins a searck for Constance, ker godmotker. Ske traces ker to New York, wkere Constance — now famous for ker keauty and wit, kut notorious for ker sexual conquests — kas a reputation as a Circe. Step, ky step, Victoria finds kerself lured kack into Constance's past — a past inex-tricakly linked to tkat party keld at Winterscomke, and to a deatk Constance Lelieves was no accident kut murder.
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t is at WinterscomLe, tke great country seat of tke Cavendisli family, tkat a kouse-party gathers in 1910 to celetrate tke passage of Halley's cornet over soutkem England. Among tkose present are tke four Cavendisk sons, Boy, Acland, Freddie and Steenie; tke powerful Jewisk financier, Montague Stem; a difficult and precocious ten-year-old, Constance Skawcross, and ker fatker wko is kaving an affair witk tke mistress of tke kouse. It is a krilliant party, Lut, traumatically for Constance, it is marred ky a korrific accident.
Over kalf a century later, Victoria Cavendisk kegins a searck for Constance, ker godmotker. Ske traces ker to New York, wkere Constance — now famous for ker keauty and wit, kut notorious for ker sexual conquests — kas a reputation as a Circe. Step, ky step, Victoria finds kerself lured kack into Constance's past — a past inex-tricakly linked to tkat party keld at Winterscomke, and to a deatk Constance Lelieves was no accident kut murder.
In ker searck, Victoria is guided ky Constance's secret ioumals. Tke story tkey tell — of a woman's involvement witk four krotkers, of tke First War, of a seduction, and a turkulent marriage — is complex and also skocking. Here, tke dead speak, men and women are at war, sex and love are weapons. But can tke journals ke trusted? For tke keg uiling Constance deligkts in tricking tke eye. Her version of events is a dark one and Victoria, alarmed ky discoveries akout ker own past, must decide — is it true, or is it fiction?
Witk its portrayal of a vanisked class and era tkrougk tke eyes of a modem woman. Dark Angel explores tke complexities of oksession, fantasy and falsekood tkrougk six decades of a family's kistory. Inventive, powerful and disturbing, it is Sally Beau-man's first novel since tke legendary sue-cessofD imy. ISBN 0593 01670X Vissza