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When composer and conductor Nicholas, a rising star in the world of classical music, joins the Boston Conservatory, he falls in love with violin student Remy and leaves his wife Hazel and young daughter Jessie.
Françoise Sagan, like the hero of this novel-essay of hers, Sebastian and Eleonora Van Milhem, brother and sister, elegantly wears a mask of relaxation and carefreeness, but behind the mask hides a vulnerable human being.
In the novel, we gradually discover "what was before" and the motives that drive the characters become clear, and the events that lead them further are lined up at a fast pace, so that interest grows in how the events will unravel further.
Hungry Hill (1943) is a saga of five generations of the Anglo-Irish Brodrick family, owners of Clonmere Castle in Ireland. Du Maurier, a master of Gothic prose, weaves together folklore, curses, and social change, showing how greed destroys heirs.
CONVICTED MAN Apollo Greaves, Viscount Kilbourne, unjustly accused of murder and rendered mute after being beaten almost to death, escaped from the notorious Bedlam.