One glorious gothic mansion - Garonlea - and two rather different ladies who would be Queen . . .
Lady Charlotte French-McGrath has successfully ruled over her family with a rod of iron until the arrival of Cynthia: beautiful, young, talented, selfish - and engaged to her son Desmond.
When Cynthia enters the Jazz Age, on the surface her life passes in a whirl of hunting, drinking and romance. But the ghosts of Garonlea are only biding their time: they know the source of their power, a secret handed on from one generation to the next.
Molly Keane was born in Co. Kildare, Ireland, in 1904 into a 'rather serious Hunting and Fishing Church-going family' who gave her little education at the hands of governesses. Molly Keane's interests when young were 'hunting and horses and having a good time'; she began writing only to supplement her dress allowance. She died in 1996.
Title: The Rising Tide (Virago Modern Classics)
Author: Molly Keane
ISBN: 9781844083268
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Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Publication Date: 2006-06-01
Number of Pages: 336
Weight: 0.2586 kg
Molly Keane ... is robust about sinful human nature and the intrigues of the heart... * V.S. Pritchett *
Psychologically sharp, socially knowing and closely knit * IRISH TIMES *
The characterisation of women is first class * Sebastian Faulks *
She is akin to Jane Austen in her feeling for the minutae of human behaviour * Polly Devlin *