The Wind Off the Small Isles: Two enchanting stories from the queen of romantic suspense - Hardcover

Stewart, Mary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1473641241 ISBN 13: 9781473641242

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, 2016

Synopsis

Beloved author Mary Stewart's long-lost novella, now back in print for the first time in 40 years and perfect for fans of Anya Seton, Daphne du Maurier and Santa Montefiore.

'Now she would spell love her own way...'

In 1879, a wealthy young woman elopes with an impoverished fisherman, leaving her family, who live on the volcanic island of Lanzarote, distraught. In 1968, 23-year-old Perdita West, secretary to the famous author Cora Gresham, visits Lanzarote, the strangest and most wild of the Canary Isles, on a research trip. They meet Cora's estranged son, Mike, and fall in love with the unusual, beautiful little island.

While snorkeling, a landslide traps Perdita in an underwater cave. No one knows where she is, so she can't count on a rescue. And her efforts to save herself will reveal the solution to a century-old mystery...

The Wind off the Small Isles is Mary Stewart's sweeping, romantic long-lost novella, finally being brought back to print in a beautiful, all new edition for the first time in more than four decades.

About this title

Book Description:

The extraordinary long-lost novella by beloved author Mary Stewart, perfect for fans of Daphne du Maurier, Santa Montefiore and Anya Seton.

From the Back Cover:

'It was beauty more than naked; beauty pared to the bone'

Lanzarote, the wildest and most extraordinary of the Canary Isles.

1879. A wealthy young woman elopes with an impoverished fisherman and vanishes from her home on Lanzarote, never to be heard from again. Nearly a century later, 23-year-old Perdita West, secretary to the famous author Cora Gresham, visits the enchanting little island on a research trip. There she meets Cora's estranged son, Mike, and falls under Lanzarote's spell.

While snorkeling, a landslide traps Perdita in an underwater cave. No one knows where she is, so she can't count on a rescue. And her efforts to save herself will reveal the solution to a century-old mystery...

The Wind Off the Small Isles is the sweepingly romantic long-lost novella by beloved author Mary Stewart, finally back in print for the first time in more than four decades.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1473641241
• ISBN 13: 9781473641242
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 80