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Zusatztext A comfortable chair and a Mary Stewart: total heaven. I'd rather read her than most other authors. Informationen zum Autor Mary Stewart was one of the 20th century's bestselling and best-loved novelists. She was born in Sunderland! County Durham in 1916! but lived for most of her life in Scotland! a source of much inspiration for her writing. Her first novel! Madam! Will You Talk? was published in 1955 and marked the beginning of a long and acclaimed writing career. In 1971 she was awarded the International PEN Association's Frederick Niven Prize for The Crystal Cave ! and in 1974 the Scottish Arts Council Award for one of her children's books! Ludo and the Star Horse . She was married to the Scottish geologist Frederick Stewart! and died in 2014. Klappentext [no change to this italic quote] The growl and roar of thunder rolled an re-echoed from the mountains and the sword of the lightning stabbed down! and stabbed again! as if searching through the depths of the cringing woods for whatever sheltered there. [new blurb - please make sure spaced hyphen is changed to en-dash] High in the rugged Pyrenees lies the Valley of the Storms! where a tiny convent clings to the beautiful but lonely mountainside. Jenny Silver arrives seeking her missing cousin! and is devastated when she learns of Gillian's death following a terrible car accident. But Jenny's suspicions are aroused when she's told the blue flowers ornamenting her cousin's grave were Gillian's favourite. Jenny knows Gillian was colour-blind - and so starts her mission to uncover what really happened to her. 'A totally captivating story' Manchester Evening News 'A comfortable chair and a Mary Stewart: total heaven. I'd rather read her than most other authors.' Harriet Evans The classic novel of dramatic and dangerous adventure - and romance - set in the Pyrenees, by the beloved author Mary Stewart. Zusammenfassung The classic novel of dramatic and dangerous adventure - and romance - set in the Pyrenees, by the beloved author Mary Stewart....
