The wind off the small isles;

About this book

Mary Stewarts new story is lit with the special magic of people and of place that are the hallmarks of a famous authors best work. In a series of deft brushtrokes she brings her heroine Perditaa beautiful twenty-three year oldto vivid life. A secretary to the redoutable childrens novelist Cora Gresham Perditas job carries her to the Canary Islands in search of local colour for a new masterpiece and a peaceful house in which to write it. But the house is already occupiedonce by the past and the haunting memory of what happened there a century ago; and now by its present ownersvery much alivea famous playwright and his research assistant Michael. In the fierce beauty of the volcanic landscape in the persons of Perdita and Michael past and present meet violently. The weird semi-deserted island of Lanzarote is the scene for the collision which reshapes the lives of the young lovers as it did a hundred years ago.