The Last Days of Leda Grey

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Pub Date 3 Nov 2016 | Archive Date 3 Nov 2016

Description

A bewitching novel about an enigmatic silent film actress, and the volatile love affair that left her a recluse for over half a century - for fans of Sarah Waters and Tracy Chevalier.

During the oppressive heat wave of 1976 a young journalist, Ed Peters, finds an Edwardian photograph in a junk shop in the Brighton Lanes. It shows an alluring, dark-haired girl, an actress whose name was Leda Grey.

Enchanted by the image, Ed learns Leda Grey is still living - now a recluse in a decaying cliff-top house she once shared with a man named Charles Beauvois, a director of early silent film. As Beauvois's muse and lover, Leda often starred in scenes where stage magic and trick photography were used to astonishing effect.

But, while playing a cursed Egyptian queen, the fantasies captured on celluloid were echoed in reality when Beauvois suspected a love affair between Leda and her leading man. A horrific accident left Leda abandoned and alone for more than half a century - until Ed Peters finds her and hears the secrets of her past, resulting in a climax more haunting than any to be found in the silent films of Charles Beauvois.

A bewitching novel about an enigmatic silent film actress, and the volatile love affair that left her a recluse for over half a century - for fans of Sarah Waters and Tracy Chevalier.

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Advance Praise

'An obvious comparison is with early Sarah Waters. The glee with which Fox approaches her material is infectious' GUARDIAN

Fox's tale of obsessive love is memorable and unusual' SUNDAY TIMES

'An obvious comparison is with early Sarah Waters. The glee with which Fox approaches her material is infectious' GUARDIAN

Fox's tale of obsessive love is memorable and unusual' SUNDAY TIMES


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