Lady Author:Thomas Tryon After that it was never the same, never could have been for withing months I had made my terrible discovery... — Against the rich nostalgia of a small New England town in the '30s and '40s, the spellbinding novel unfolds the story of a wealthy and beautiful widow whose enigmatic past weaves an ever-tightening web of suspense around her and those ... more »who love her.
They call her Lady.
Lady - who lives in the big house on the other side of the green...
Lady - who is the special friend of young Woody who lives across the way...
Lady - who is kind and fair and generous, except when she hides herself in the darkness of her memories...
Lady - who lives in agony with her terrible secret until she no longer can...
From first page to last the reader is held enthralled, captive of this lovely and mysterious...Lady.« less
This book is filled with the nostalgia of a family and a mysterious "Lady" who lives across the park. It's a wonderful look back in time and has an ending that is quite the surprise!
"The novel re-creates the texture of life in an American small town and brings back our own lost memories of the nineteen-thirties and -forties. It is a heart piercing evocation of a bittersweet alliance, with all its thorny ambiguities, between a charming woman and an adoring young boy. It holds readers in a delicately tautening suspense as it gradually reveals the unimaginable truth about its lovely-and elusive-heroine. And about all, it gives us Lady."