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Anna Lisle's Allegra
Some seven or eight years ago I wrote a novel called Allegra. It never really fitted into the themes of the books I went on to publish with Macmillan, Playing with the Moon, Restitution, Jubilee and The History Room, so it did not appear in print.
I carried out quite a bit of research on the book and enjoyed the period and setting -- early Victorian London -- very much. So over the last month or so I have been revising the book and have now published it myself under my Anna Lisle name. Here's a brief synopsis:
1822: Byron’s young illegitimate daughter dies in an Italian Convent, sent away from the mother who adored her. 1838: young Alice Clarke, unhappily married to a brutal man, is pursued on London’s streets by a mysterious Greek man and a cloaked woman. Alice is illicitly in love with a sea captain sailing the perilous route to India around Africa. When he vanishes on a voyage, her pursuers draw her into an increasingly tense game of cat and mouse, running between the early Victorian squalor of London’s Rookeries and the splendour of its Mayfair squares. A murder in Regent’s Park reinforces the message that Alice is involved in a very dangerous game. But how is she linked to a brilliant and notorious group of English poets living in Italy sixteen years earlier?
I carried out quite a bit of research on the book and enjoyed the period and setting -- early Victorian London -- very much. So over the last month or so I have been revising the book and have now published it myself under my Anna Lisle name. Here's a brief synopsis:
1822: Byron’s young illegitimate daughter dies in an Italian Convent, sent away from the mother who adored her. 1838: young Alice Clarke, unhappily married to a brutal man, is pursued on London’s streets by a mysterious Greek man and a cloaked woman. Alice is illicitly in love with a sea captain sailing the perilous route to India around Africa. When he vanishes on a voyage, her pursuers draw her into an increasingly tense game of cat and mouse, running between the early Victorian squalor of London’s Rookeries and the splendour of its Mayfair squares. A murder in Regent’s Park reinforces the message that Alice is involved in a very dangerous game. But how is she linked to a brilliant and notorious group of English poets living in Italy sixteen years earlier?
Allegra Amazon Countdown
With my 'Anna Lisle' writer's hat on, I just wanted to tell anyone who might be interested that Allegra will be just 99p at Amazon for two days starting tomorrow (20th) for anyone who hasn't yet read it. It's the story of how the legacy of a notorious English Romantic poet comes to haunt a London housewife who's also about to embark on a dangerous love affair.
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