‘When the journey ended, this was all one was left with, memories.’
But it is the countess’s grandson, Jack, who draws Cecily further into the tangled web of the countess's past, and sweeps her into an uncertain future… For aspiring writer Cecily, the novelist’s presence only adds to the intrigue of the house. Staying with the countess is a successful novelist and dear friend who has been summoned to write the countess’s memoirs. But the countess is clearly troubled by her memories, and by ruinous secrets that haunt her… As Cecily gets to know her, she becomes fascinated by the remarkable woman-riveted by her tales of life on the Continent, and of the famous people she once knew. Rumors abound about the countess’s many husbands and lovers, her opulent wealth, and the tragedies that have marked her life. But for now the countryside languished, golden and fading…Ĭecily Chadwick is idling away the long, hot summer of 1911 when a mysterious countess moves into the large, deserted country house on the edge of her sleepy English village.
Promises would be broken and hearts betrayed. Within weeks letters would be burned, pages torn.
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