Beau Grayle was a wartime hero, with a dreadful dark secret. As Nanny Grayle slips away, the family's way of life and the glory that was Hartleap, their home, seem to be sliding into the grave with her. As the tide of terrible truths rises, the family are desperately closing ranks.

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Dirk Bogarde's books are A Postillion Struck by Lightning, Snakes and Ladders, An Orderly Man, Backcloth, A Short Walk from Harrods, Cleared for Take-Off, A Period of Adjustment, Jericho (available in Penguin paperback and on Penguin Audiobook read by the author), A Gentle Occupation, Voices in the Garden, West of Sunset, Great Meadow and A Particular Friendship (available in Penguin paperback).

Sir Dirk Bogarde lives in London SW3

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