The Cuckoo's Child
Published on 1. November 2011
256 pages
978-1-78010-062-3 (ISBN)
Description
A young woman comes of age and discovers her hidden past in this gripping historical mystery set in the north of England.
England, 1909. When twenty-one-year-old Laura Harcourt accepts a position in Wainthorpe, a small Yorkshire town, to catalog books in an old manor house owned by wealthy local Ainsley Beaumont, she does not dream that it will change her life forever. But she arrives to find the Beaumont family still torn apart by the death of Ainsley's son in a disastrous fire twenty years past. Worse still, the damaged wing of the house remains untouched. When a dead body surfaces in the water at Beaumont's mill, long-buried secrets soon follow-including Laura's unexpected connection to the Beaumont family. Rendered in exquisite period detail, Cuckoo's Child is a moving, suspenseful mystery of love, lies, and murder.
"Eccles' latest enjoyably blends historical romance and suspenseful murder mystery in a keep-'em-guessing plot with revealing insights into English society at the time and authentic period ambience. Entertaining reading for fans of British historicals." -Booklist
England, 1909. When twenty-one-year-old Laura Harcourt accepts a position in Wainthorpe, a small Yorkshire town, to catalog books in an old manor house owned by wealthy local Ainsley Beaumont, she does not dream that it will change her life forever. But she arrives to find the Beaumont family still torn apart by the death of Ainsley's son in a disastrous fire twenty years past. Worse still, the damaged wing of the house remains untouched. When a dead body surfaces in the water at Beaumont's mill, long-buried secrets soon follow-including Laura's unexpected connection to the Beaumont family. Rendered in exquisite period detail, Cuckoo's Child is a moving, suspenseful mystery of love, lies, and murder.
"Eccles' latest enjoyably blends historical romance and suspenseful murder mystery in a keep-'em-guessing plot with revealing insights into English society at the time and authentic period ambience. Entertaining reading for fans of British historicals." -Booklist
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Edition
Retailer exclusive - Open Road
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Canongate Books
File size
0,91 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78010-062-3 (9781780100623)
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Marjorie Eccles
The Cuckoo's Child
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03/2011
Severn House Publishers Ltd
€44.79
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Person
Marjorie Eccles was born in Yorkshire and spent much of her childhood there and on the Northumbrian coast. She is the recipient of the Agatha Christie Short Story Styles Award. A keen gardener, she lives with her husband in Hertfordshire.
