Reissue of the popular historical novel made into a movie with Margaret Lockwood.
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47 kirjaa tekijältä Norah Lofts
The house was built in the Old Queen's time -- built for an Elizabethan pirate who was knighted for the plunder he brought home. It survived many eras, many reigns -- it saw the passing of Cromwell and the Civil War. It became rich with an Indian Nabob and poor with a twentieth century innkeeper. It saw wars, and lovers, and death. Children were born there, both heirs and bastards. It had ghosts and legends and a history that grew stranger with every generation. The house was Merravay -- and its story stretched over four hundred years...
Sir Godfrey Tallboys: A knight-errant at the top of his profession and with little thought beyond the next tourney. A long way from beingwealthy but in need of a house for his pretty young wife.Lady Sybilla Tallboys: A loving wife, tolerant of her husband's shortcomings--and with a strong desire for a home where she could raise theirfour children instead of relying on the charity of relatives.Forethought was rare for Sir Godfrey but he decided to build a house even though it took the last of his money. A magnificent tourney in Spain would make his fortune so, leaving England, he went off to fight.But tourney turned to treachery and at home he was reported dead. It fell to Sybilla to fend for herself and her children inthe hope that, one day, Sir Godfrey would return.
Sir Charles Augustus Shelmadine was an autocrat. He ruled his village with a firm but kindly hand - instructing his tenants on their crops, their children and their love affairs. When he died and the new Squire came, the village stirred uneasily. For the new Squire had strange ideas - and even stranger friends - people like Mr. Mundford who never seemed to grow any older and whose name was linked with the terrible Hell Fire Club. Mr. Mundford was interested in too many things that should not have concerned him...like the ruins of the old Roman temple where the rites of Mithras had once been enacted...and in the silent, amber-eyed young woman called Damask Greenaway. Damask was the daughter of a Bible-thumping Christian. But when she lost the love of her life, she turned against all she had been raised to believe and a strange power possessed her; a power to make people do what she pleased. It was this power that Mr. Mundford was hoping to harness on that most powerful of nights: All Hallow's Eve.
Julia Ashley was born to a life of dramatic twists and tragedy. Saved from Cromwell's Irish massacres by her nurse, saved from starvation by a Dutch sea captain...Her future and any possible lasting happiness depended entirely on a 'glove marriage' to a man who was no more than a name. The Dutch East Indies, in the seventeenth century, were lands of legendary riches; of 'nutmeg princes;' of fortunes and family empires built on barbaric plantations and slavery. And amid the extravagance, the cruelty, the bizarre customs, perhaps the strangest events of all were the curious weddings that sent girls half-way around the world to husbands they had never seen. Julia, brave and stoical with a stormy and turbulent history behind her, took her 'glove'-of yellow, pearl-sewn silk-and began the journey to the island of Rua, to a land of seeming paradise where nothing was exactly as it appeared.
"Princesses are born to be exiled. What is the alternative? Spinsterhood?" Thus the future of Caroline Matilda, youngest sister of George III, was settled - marriage to the nearly insane Prince of Denmark. Prompted by a sense of foreboding, she begged that one of her sisters should be sent in her place. But Caroline was the healthiest, the strongest of the English princesses, and as well as being exiled, princesses were meant to be brood mares... Exiled in a strange country, isolated by her inability to speak the language, Caroline forms a close bond with the King's doctor, Johann Struensee. They become lovers, eventually being arrested and charged with treason, with tragic consequences...
Sir Godfrey Tallboys: Battered and bruised from years as a captive in Spain after an ill-fated crusade, this former knight-errant has returned home to Knight's Acre to his wife and children. But with him is theMoorish slave girl to whom he owes his life--pregnant with his child. Lady Sybilla Tallboys: Exhausted with struggling to keep her children fed and poverty at bay, Sir Godfrey's beautiful wife has grown old before her time. But she, too, has known the fleeting call of forbiddenpassion and is willing to welcome her husband's saviour into their humble home. Tana, Lady Serriff: Exotic and beguiling and aflame with all the jealous passions of the East, Tana sees Sybilla as the obstacle to all her desires. And when Sir Godfrey leaves again to fight another war, Tana's own battle for supremacy for her and her child begins. This turbulent sequel to Knight's Acre weaves a colourful tapestry of a medieval world filled with powerful women struggling against the cruel hand of fate.
When the body of four-year-old John Vincent is discovered, hidden in a midden, the already unhappyCornwall family begins to unravel. With no obvious reason for his murder, a scapegoat must be found andhis elder half-sister Charlotte, the sleepwalker, neatly fits the bill. After facing the horror of a trial by jury, Charlotte is found not guilty but suspicion still follows her asshe takes up almost unpaid work as a teacher in the untrustworthy Mrs. Armitage's school. After her fellow teacher and friend, Miss Lamb, vanishes, followed by the tragic death of one ofCharlotte's much-loved pupils, the finger of blame is pointed again. Now even Charlotte begins tobelieve that she is losing her mind and may well be a murderess.
GAD'S HALLWhen a house comes up for sale at a ridiculously low price there has to be a catch. Doesn't there? Some sort of legal problem. More prosaically, rising damp or subsidence. But Gad's Hall had none of these problems; it was modernised and in good condition. Mr. Thorley, the vendor, had his reasons for the sale and the price so Jill and Bob Spender were happy to make the purchase. What Mr. Thorley did not--could not--know was that there was an unseen occupant in Gad's Hall which had already caused darkness and death and was poised to do so again...THE HAUNTING OF GAD'S HALLAn attic room which shouldn't be opened. An eight-year-old girl whose talent for painting turns... darker. An age-old presence which is about to be let loose, once more to wreak its horrors on the unsuspecting occupants of Gad's Hall.
Norah Lofts' Mesmerising Final Novel.When wealthy Penelope Mercer fell in love she would not take no for an answer. So, Adam Woodley, a simple pargeter, who had created the decorations for her father's new house, was to become her husband. A pragmatic man, he had nothing to lose as the love of his own life had died. This unconventional marriage produced a son and a daughter and it was Sarah Woodley-Mercer who inherited both her mother's determination and her father's practical abilities.She would need both-and more-to survive the aftermath of the English Civil War when, abandoned by her brother, she in turn must marry for expediency in order to stay in her beloved home and protect her people. Can Sarah's unflinching courage through a bitterly unhappy marriage hold the little household together throughout the years of Cromwell's rule? And with the restoration of the Monarchy, can she restore her family's fortunes-and finally experience the love she has been praying for?
