The Last Days of Leda Grey
- Author Essie Fox
- Narrator Peter Noble, Rachel Atkins
- Publisher Orion
- Run Time 10 hours and 18 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Historical fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction.
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What to expect
A bewitching novel about an enigmatic silent film actress, and the volatile love affair that left her a recluse for over half a century - for fans of Sarah Waters and Tracy Chevalier.
During the oppressive heat wave of 1976 a young journalist, Ed Peters, finds an Edwardian photograph in a junk shop in the seaside town of Brightland. It shows an alluring, dark-haired girl, an actress whose name was Leda Grey.
Enchanted by the image, Ed learns Leda Grey is still living - now a recluse in a decaying cliff-top house she once shared with a man named Charles Beauvois, a director of early silent film. As Beauvois's muse and lover, Leda often starred in scenes where stage magic and trick photography were used to astonishing effect.
But, while playing a cursed Egyptian queen, the fantasies captured on celluloid were echoed in reality, leaving Leda abandoned and alone for more than half a century - until the secrets of her past result in a shocking climax, more haunting than any to be in found in the silent films of Charles Beauvois.
(p) 2016 Orion Publishing Group
During the oppressive heat wave of 1976 a young journalist, Ed Peters, finds an Edwardian photograph in a junk shop in the seaside town of Brightland. It shows an alluring, dark-haired girl, an actress whose name was Leda Grey.
Enchanted by the image, Ed learns Leda Grey is still living - now a recluse in a decaying cliff-top house she once shared with a man named Charles Beauvois, a director of early silent film. As Beauvois's muse and lover, Leda often starred in scenes where stage magic and trick photography were used to astonishing effect.
But, while playing a cursed Egyptian queen, the fantasies captured on celluloid were echoed in reality, leaving Leda abandoned and alone for more than half a century - until the secrets of her past result in a shocking climax, more haunting than any to be in found in the silent films of Charles Beauvois.
(p) 2016 Orion Publishing Group
Critics Review
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A richly evocative story, brimming with intrigue and suspense
M. L. Stedman, author of THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS -
Leda Grey’s world is utterly beguiling
THE TIMES -
Dark, haunting, compelling… equal to DuMaurier’s novels – this book held me in its grip. Loved it.
Liz Fenwick, author of The Cornish House -
Macabre, transporting, thick with atmosphere and allusion
Morgan McCarthy, author of The Other Half Of Me -
Darkly sparkling. Very much enjoyed my days in Leda’s twilight world. Doubt I’ll sleep all that well tonight…
Anna Mazzola, author of The Unseeing -
Shades of Sunset Boulevard in this atmospheric chiller
WOMAN&HOME
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