Shadows End

by Barbara Whitehead

All of Whitehead's mastery of intrigue, imagination and descriptive detail is brought to bear in this tour-de-force. Shadows end creates a living link between the sixteenth century and the twentieth century.

It was just an ordinary picture - of a sixteenth century woman wearing a white coif over her hair, a neat white ruff and a black dress. Yet for Elizabeth Bowe, a 26-year-old girl with her feet planted firmly in the twentieth century it was the harbinger of a supernatural event that seemed inexorably imposed upon her by fate. For it was more than just a portrait - it was herself.

In this superbly told story, Barbara Whitehead creates a delicate web of the forces of the past reaching out to enmesh the present.

This is an interesting precursor to the first of her crime novels Playing God.

191 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

Aka Rosa Hill

Barbara Whitehead is a novelist of imagination and intrigue. The mysterious historical world that is a backdrop to her crime novels, is second to none in terms of atmosphere and descriptive mastery.

Barbara was born in Sheffield, UK in 1930. She now lives at Thornton near Bradford, though for many years she lived in York - the city in which her crime novels are set.