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The Storrington Papers
Author: Dorothy Eden

The best-selling author of 'The Salamanca Drum' writes a stunning new novel of a munitions-making dynasty and the courageous young woman who unravels the century-old legend that still haunts its troubled heirs. For Sarah Goodwill, still reeling in the aftershock of a disastrous marriage, the position of secretary-ghostwriter to Major Charles Sto... more »rrington seems the ideal opportunity to exorcise a few demons of her own. Sarah will help Major Storrington, coonfined to a wheelchair by the tank accident that finished a promising military career, to research and write the family history of the Storringtons, an armaments dynasty. She will also serve as governess to his small son. To her dismay, Sarah finds the menage at Maidenshall, the great Victorian mansion built on the site of a nunnery, a decidedly uneasy one: Elegant, lovely Cressida is patently unable to overcome the blow dealt her marriage by Charles's crippling. Bored, diversion-starved, she increasingly seeks escape in her London fashion career and, perhaps, in the arms of other men; Adolphus "Dolly" Storrington is a lonely, distracted child who spends most of his waking hours in the company of a fantasy playmate who has entirely, almost unnaturally, possessed the boy's hyperactive imagination; The Major, handsome, still powerful, and restive in his wheelchair prison, alternates between bursts of creative energy and raging, frustration-provoked outbursts at his family, his servants, and even at Sarah, who is fallin inexorabloy in love with him; And Henrietta Galloway, the nonage-narian retainer who wanders about Maidenshall unsettling whomever she encouters with her ramblings of days long past. As Sarah moves deeper into the family papers, she experiences a distinct sense of something unfinished, unresolved, about the Storringtons. But it is not until her research yields up two diaries out of Edwardian times that she discovers a fascinating family legend--the legend of Hannah Knox. In these two accounts--one innocently observing, the other eloquent with the pain of betrayal--Sarah learns of the illicit passion of that earlier governess for another Charles Storrington, and of its bitter aftermath. Sarah Goodwill falls in thrall, as will every reader of this novel, to the spell of Hannah Knox and to her anguished story of love and betrayal and revenge. Hannah Knox's fate stands at the heart of 'The Storrington Papers' and has the power ultimately to determine Sarah Goodwill's own. Deftly interweaving two eras, two psyches into an unforgettably vivid and quintessentially romantic narrative, Dorothy Eden in 'The Storrington Papers' has written her most ambitious and evocative novel yet.

ISBN: 352044
Publication Date: 1978
Pages: 246
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Currently 3.5/5 Stars.

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Publisher: Coward, McDann & Geoghegan, Inc.
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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Genres:

Romance >> Romantic Suspense

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