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The story of Lawrence Durrell and his enigmatic first wife, Nancy: love, betrayal and literary endeavour set among the glittering intellectuals of 1930s London, Paris and Corfu

In the small Cotswold town of Tilsbury, Doll Taverner is seen as a respectable wife and mother, yet she harbors a mysterious past. The arrival of Royalist soldiers disrupts her life, reviving childhood traumas. As she develops feelings for Captain Stephen Sutton, she begins to question her life's certainties. Richly detailed, "The Puritan's Wife" explores love amidst darkness.

During timeless summer days by the river, five children amuse themselves with games of secrecy and murder. Years later, one is dead, another has been attacked and a third has vanished. The fourth, Jane Baer, receives a call for help, an old summons from which she will finally uncover an old secret.

At 16 Margaret's childhood is over when she is persuaded to leave her family to marry a stranger. Alienated by her husband's coldness, Margaret is desperate for affection and she finds herself turning to the wealthy Richard Treveryan. But the bloodshed of Civil War threatens all she holds dear.