A Spell of Swallows

By Sarah Harrison

Would you risk a stable marriage for a dangerous affair? Vivien Mariner loves her husband, and is adored by him in return. So why does she find herself so strongly drawn to John Ashe, the enigmatic... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0340828617
• ISBN13: 9780340828618
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Hodder Paperback
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 4.4"

Customer Reviews

Past shadows

This is by far one of the best books I have read in a long time. Sarah Harrison is a superb writer who weaves her story with touches of mysticism interlaced with hard, cold truths. Apollonia Durrance, known as Api, is the youngest child of singularly unconcerned parents who go their own way, not through cruelty but from sheer apathy and indifference to the fate of their offspring. Api survives a horrifying episode with a control freak when she is just a teenager, only to fall hopelessly in love with a man whom she meets just once for a few seconds. Bryn Mancini is a hugely successful architect, married to a beautiful and talented wife and their life together is storybook perfect. The catalyst which brings Bryn and Api into the same sphere is a large, sinister painting of Api's great grandfather, a man whose past is shrouded in mystery but whose shaded face haunts Api's dreams. It's an absolute cracker of a book which I would recommend to anyone.