Dark Angel

by Sally Beauman

Book Overview

Halley's Comet night at Winterscombe in 1910 ends with a violent death which throws a giant shadow over three generations of the Cavendish dynasty. At the centre of events is the beautiful and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553057626
• ISBN13: 9780553057621
• Release Date: July 1990
• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Length: 786 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 6.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Quite delicious

A little slow in the beginning but now I'm completely hooked!! I love Sally Beauman's novel "Destiny" so I took a chance on Dark Angel. Someone's enthusiastic review on here also influenced me. I can't believe what a talented writer Sally is! I usually abhor fiction but if it's historical like this book I'm fine with it. I'm still barely in the beginning of the book but I'm loving it!

Under-rated Book!

I love historical fiction and picked this up among my mother's pile of books. At first the sheer length intimidated me. Did I really want to read all that? What if it wasn't any good? Well, I started reading and was hooked from page one. I read this book faster than any other half it's length. Beauman has a true talent of taking you back in time and into the minds of her characters. I went online to find out more about this book. Surely, there was a movie in the works for it. I couldn't find anything. I feel this novel is under-rated and deserved more attention. It's so rich in history, love, mystery, and family ties that bind and break your heart.

Amazing

Hand on heart, this is truly the best book I've ever read. Beauman recreates the period in such a way that you'll feel you were actually there. Constance's devastating effect on one family has you loving and hating her at the same time, and I fell in love with Acland as well. One complaint: no book I've read since has lived up to this one. I miss the characters and places so much, it's as if I physically knew them. A truly great novel.

A murder-mystery-romance you'll remember for a long time

Just finished it. Dreamt of Constance and Ackland. A love story to compare to Wuthering Heights. A murder or an accident? Sane or insane? Unrequited love or love fulfilled? I could never guess what came next. A must for a good read. Recommended by a work friend who got this book for a quarter. It's worth much more. I'll have to tell her it's out of print. An excellent author. I want to read her other works. A historical perspective that lays as a backdrop for a masterpiece painted on a canvas that spans years. People full of color, height, and depth. Passionate dreams, idealist aspirations, fulfilled and unfulfilled the reader yearns and quests for more. Beauman draws the reader into this world of Winterscombe and makes it real and in its realism, terrifying yet enticing for the secrets it holds. Questions remain with the reader: What if I had lived through and experienced what this character did? Would I be the same? How would I have coped?

Great!

Beauman manages to make you feel sorry for a woman who seems to be evil to core. This is the book that hooked me on her writing. You can probably find it in your local trading store. You won't be sorry.