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A Night in Cold Harbour

Margaret Kennedy author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:13th Oct '14

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A tale about a conscience awakened too late from the author of The Constant Nymph

Romilly Brandon was heir to a fortune and the handsomest and liveliest young man in the county. Returning years later, Romily finds many surprises - his one-time sweetheart grown old and withered, and in possession of a great secret that shakes him to his core.Romilly Brandon was heir to a fortune and the handsomest and liveliest young man in the county. But in his twenty-first year, the pretty daughter of the local parson, Jenny Newbolt broke his heart, and he left to live a dissipated life in London. Returning years later, Romily finds many surprises - his one-time sweetheart grown old and withered, and in possession of a great secret that shakes him to his core. When Romily finally learns the truth, is it too late to atone?

Margaret Kennedy caught just the taste of the time, mixing a stolid domestic Englishness with 'Continental' bohemians * Irish Times *
She is not only a romantic but an anarchist, and she knows the ways of men and women very well indeed -- Anita Brookner
Kennedy was immensely popular in her heyday * Washington Post *

ISBN: 9780099595489

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 19mm

Weight: 213g

288 pages