A Step In The Dark

Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780755331321

Price: £9.99

ON SALE: 17th May 2007

Genre: Fiction & Related Items / Historical Fiction

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A powerful family drama set in India and Scotland, from 1915 to the 1960s

It’s 1915 when young Bess Ravenhart, recently widowed, leaves her baby son Frazer with her mother-in-law, Cora, while she sails from India to Britain to set up a home. But Cora has no intention of returning Frazer to his mother’s care. Though Bess makes a new life in Edinburgh and knows the joy – and pain – of motherhood with further children, her heart always aches for the little boy she left behind. When Frazer travels to Scotland twenty years later, it seems Bess’s dreams of a reconciliation will come true. But Frazer trails danger in his wake, and it’s possible that not only he but also Bess and her whole family will live to rue the day of his return…


Reviews

Praise for Judith Lennox's novels: 'A fast-moving, complex story
The Times
A beautifully turned, compassionate novel. Judith Lennox's writing is so keenly honest it could sever heartstrings
Daily Mail
Great, old-fashioned storytelling in the best sense
Daily Express
A definite contender for Rosamunde Pilcher's crown
Bookseller
Praise for Judith Lennox: The unforgettable story of the secrets that can bind a family or ultimately destroy one
Reading Evening Post
Judith Lennox's writing is so keenly honest it could sever heartstrings
Daily Mail
A fast-moving, complex story
The Times
Completely unputdownable... a lovely, entrancing book
New Books Magazine
A gripping and intelligent romance
Good Book Guide
A sensitive examination of love and loss by this master storyteller
Choice Magazine
The characters are in many ways so normal, yet in other ways so unbelievably wonderful, in this gripping and heartfelt story
Newcastle Herald
Compelling storytelling
Woman & Home
A compelling novel... Lennox's prose is detailed but never overly dense and powerful when describing prosaic scenes
Sunday Express
A novel of passion and intrigue, this is an enjoyable read populated by believable characters
Candis