The Last Days of Leda Grey

di Essie Fox (Autore)

Rachel Atkins (Narratore)

Peter Noble (Narratore)

Orion, 2016

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 seaside town of Brightland. 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, leaving Leda abandoned and alone for more than half a century - until the secrets of her past result in a shocking climax, more haunting than any to be in found in the silent films of Charles Beauvois. (p) 2016 Orion Publishing Group

• Autore: Essie Fox
• Narratore: Rachel Atkins, Peter Noble
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 10:19:25
• Anno edizione: 2016
• Editore: Orion
• EAN: 9781409158899

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