A Step in the Dark by Judith Lennox in paperback at 11 euros.
An epic novel featuring great, old-fashioned storytelling, A Step in the Dark begins in Simla, India in 1914. Married at the age of 18 to the dashing Jack, beautiful Elizabeth Ravenhart is devastated when her marriage is cut tragically short.
Left penniless, she is persuaded by her domineering mother-in-law Cora to return to England, leaving her infant son behind until she can afford to send for him. Cora, however, has no intention of parting with her grandson and Elizabeth’s desperate attempts to track him down come to a dramatic conclusion.
Twenty years later, a knock on Bess’s Edinburgh door sets in motion a chain of unforeseen events as her son, Frazer, comes to claim his family – and his birthright, the majestic Ravenhart House.
This is a splendid journey from colonial India through wartime London, to the remote wilds of Scotland encompassing love and loss, greed and desire in a fast-moving, complex story.
