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Fletcher Brandon, a professional magician known as "Red," meets Rosa in an Oxford pub, where he impresses and seduces her with a successfully performed trick. But their relationship ends tragically a year later when Rosa dies in a freak accident. A police investigation into her death triggers Red's own search through Rosa's past--through parental loss, abuse, addiction, and clandestine loyalties--where he finds himself to be an outsider in his lover's secret history. Red must convince himself that Rosa really has died--that her disappearance is not merely a final deception--but, ultimately, Red's search will be a revelation not only of reality, but of illusion as well: of the illusions in Rosa's life before he knew her, in their life together, and in what appears to be her afterlife
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The Houdini Girl, Martyn Bedford
- Language
- Released
- 2000
- Binding
- (Paperback),
- Book condition
- Good
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- Title
- The Houdini Girl
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Martyn Bedford
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Released
- 2000
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 373
- ISBN10
- 0140285369
- ISBN13
- 9780140285369
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Love, Thriller, Friendship, Magic, Death, Great Britain, Past, London, Trust, Scandals and Affairs, Help, Prostitution, Togetherness, Amsterdam
- Original title
- The Houdini girl
- Rating
- 3.45 out of 5
- Description
- Fletcher Brandon, a professional magician known as "Red," meets Rosa in an Oxford pub, where he impresses and seduces her with a successfully performed trick. But their relationship ends tragically a year later when Rosa dies in a freak accident. A police investigation into her death triggers Red's own search through Rosa's past--through parental loss, abuse, addiction, and clandestine loyalties--where he finds himself to be an outsider in his lover's secret history. Red must convince himself that Rosa really has died--that her disappearance is not merely a final deception--but, ultimately, Red's search will be a revelation not only of reality, but of illusion as well: of the illusions in Rosa's life before he knew her, in their life together, and in what appears to be her afterlife