The Wind Off the Small Isles and The Lost One - Two enchanting stories from the Queen of the Romantic Mystery

The Wind Off the Small Isles is beloved author Mary Stewart's long-lost novella, now available in paperback for the first time in 40 years and perfect for fans of Anya Seton, Daphne du Maurier and Santa Montefiore. 1879. Lanzarote. A wealthy young woman elopes with an impoverished fisherman, leaving her family distraught. 1968. Perdita West, secretary to a famous author, visits Lanzarote on a research trip and begins to fall in love with the unusual, beautiful little island. When, while snorkelling, a landslide traps Perdita in an underwater cave, her efforts to save herself will reveal what happened to the ill-fated couple who fell in love at this very spot almost a century ago . . . This paperback edition also includes the recently rediscovered short story 'The Lost One', first published in Woman's Journal in 1960, and set against the backdrop of unfenced country and dark winding valleys at night.

Product details

• Authors: Mary Stewart
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9781473641259
• ISBN: 978-1-4736-4125-9
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 14 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Romance / Contemporary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Cozy / General, Crime & mystery, FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Classics, contemporary romance, FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense, Crime and mystery fiction