Lucy Atkins

Windmill Hill (eBook, ePUB)

an atmospheric and captivating novel of past secrets and friendship

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'Charming and shocking' MICK HERRON 'Intriguing, brilliantly told' NINA STIBBE 'Compulsive' CLARE CHAMBERS 'Rich in charm and surprises' GUARDIAN 'Mysterious, moving and ingenious' PHILIP PULLMAN In the 1970s, a single night in a remote hunting lodge with a Hollywood director and his leading lady sparks an international scandal. It wrecks Astrid's dazzling stage career and destroys her marriage to charismatic Scottish actor Magnus Fellowes. Magnus becomes globally famous, while Astrid retreats to a dilapidated Sussex windmill. Now 82, she lives there still, in eccentric poverty, with her housekeeper turned best friend, Mrs Baker. But Mrs Baker has a dark past too. There is an 'Awful Incident' at the windmill; police come knocking. Are these two 'old ladies' really as innocent and vulnerable as they seem? Then Astrid learns that Magnus, now on his death bed, is writing a memoir that will expose the glamour and forgotten crimes of her past. Furious, she heads to Scotland, determined to stop him, whatever it takes . . . Part literary thriller, part love story, Windmill Hill is a captivating exploration of unseen lives, the histories that shape us, and the unyielding strength of two indomitable women. Praise for Lucy Atkins: 'A deft display of Lucy Atkins's talents as a delicate observer of human nature' ARIFA AKBAR 'Intelligent and gripping' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING 'Mesmerising . . . beautifully written' LITERARY REVIEW 'Cleverly constructed' WOMAN & HOME 'It was an utter joy to relish Atkins's wonderfully skilled and unobtrusive writing' SARAH PERRY 'Sly, witty and gripping . . . I loved it' NAOMI ALDERMAN 'A sinewy, supple and gorgeously satisfying triumph' LUCY MANGAN

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Quercus
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781529407952
• Artikelnr.: 64309686

Autorenporträt

Lucy Atkins is an award-winning author and journalist. She is a book critic for the Sunday Times and the Guardian, teaches on Oxford University's Creative Writing Master's degree and has judged the Costa Book Awards. She has written for publications including the Guardian, the Times, the Telegraph, the Times Literary Supplement and many UK magazines. Her third novel, The Night Visitor, has been optioned for television. Her most recent novel, Magpie Lane, was chosen as a book of the year by BBC Radio 4's Open Book, the Guardian, the Telegraph and Good Housekeeping magazine.