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Riley, Lucinda <1968- (Geburtsjahr ca.)>
The midnight rose : a novel / Lucinda Riley
Titolo / Responsabilità: The midnight rose : a novel / Lucinda Riley
Pubblicazione: Atria Paperback, 2014
Descrizione fisica:
490 pages
ISBN: 9781476703572
Data:2014
Lingua:
Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
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Abstract:
In the heyday of the British Raj, eleven-year-old Anahita, from a noble but impoverished familly, forms a lifelong friendship with the headstrong Princess Indira, the privileged daughter of Indian royalty. As the princess's official companion, Anahita accompanies her friend to England just before the outbreak of World War I. There she meets young Donald Astbury - reluctant heir to the magnificent, remote Astbury Estate - and his scheming mother. Ninety years later, Rebecca Bradley, a young American film star, has the world at her feet. But when her turbulent relationship with her equally famous boyfriend takes an unexpected turn, she's relieved that her latest role, playing a 1920s debutant, will take her away from the glare of publicity to a distant corner of the English countryside. Shortly after filming begins at the now-crumbling Astbury Hall, Ari Malik, Anahita's great-grandson, arrives unexpectedly, on a quest for his family's past. What he and Rebecca discover begins to unravel the dark secrets that haunt the Astbury dynasty...