THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020
‘Impossible to summarise and delightfully absorbing, Hadley’s book is comfortably the most unexpected history book of the year’ Sunday Times
A luminous journey through a thousand years of folklore and English history.
**A spellbinding historical novel**
‘A dangerous word, perhaps, for a woman. Power.’
Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But will the SAS be able to storm a terrorist stronghold in the mountains of Pakistan?
‘A lovely, romantic and historical read’ – Linda’s Book Bag
June 1963, Clematis Cottage, Stoke St. Mary, Herefordshire
I am really not sure why I am writing this. A foolish whim by a foolish old lady and it will probably sit in a box unread and decay much like its writer when Death makes his careless decision.
One of the very best thrillers of the last ten years. Second novel by Stevens, published by Coronet in 1987, now reissued and still stunningly relevant to the Middle East conflict.
