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This Rough Magic

Mary Stewart

1971255 pagesabout 4–6 hours
1971
first published
  • 1968Hodder and Stoughton · ENGISBN 9780340109052
  • 1972Coronet · 255 pages · ENGISBN 9780340022023
  • 1994Chivers · 491 pages · ENGISBN 9780745133942
  • 2013Chicago Review Press · 348 pagesISBN 9781613744505
  • 1988Chivers Audio Books · ENGISBN 9780745163086
  • 1985Fawcett · ENGISBN 9780449207345
  • 1964Brand: William Morrow n Co · 284 pagesISBN 9780688026141
  • 2004HarperTorch · 384 pages · ENGISBN 9780060747473

When Lucy Waring's sister Phyllida suggests that she join her for a quiet holiday on the island of Corfu, young English Lucy is overjoyed. Her work as an actress has temporarily come to a halt. She believes there is no finer place to be "at liberty" than the sun-drenched isle of Corfu, the alleged locale for Shakespeare's The Tempest. Even the suspicious actions of the handsome, arrogant son of a famous actor cannot dampen her enthusiasm for this wonderland in the Ionian Sea. But the peaceful idyll does not last long. A series of incidents, seemingly unconnected - but all surrounded in mystery - throws Lucy's life into a dangerous spin, as fear, danger and death - as well as romance - supplant the former tranquility. Then a human corpse is carried ashore on the incoming tide... And without warning, she found she had stumbled into a nightmare of strange violence, stalked by shadows of terror and sudden death.

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