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The unexpected arrival of her willful teenage granddaughter, Ruby, brings life and disorder to 82-year-old Iris Black’s old house in Cairo. Ruby, driven away from England by her fraught relationship with her own mother, is seeking refuge with the grandmother she hasn’t seen for years.
An unlikely bond develops as Ruby helps Iris document her fading memories of the glittering, cosmopolitan Cairo of World War Two, and of her one true love – the enigmatic Captain Xan Molyneux – whom she lost to the ravages of war.
This lost love shaped Iris’s past – and will affect Ruby’s future in ways they could not have imagined …
The unexpected arrival of her willful teenage granddaughter, Ruby, brings life and disorder to 82-year-old Iris Black’s old house in Cairo. Ruby, driven away from England by her fraught relationship with her own mother, is seeking refuge with the grandmother she hasn’t seen for years.
An unlikely bond develops as Ruby helps Iris document her fading memories of the glittering, cosmopolitan Cairo of World War Two, and of her one true love – the enigmatic Captain Xan Molyneux – whom she lost to the ravages of war.
This lost love shaped Iris’s past – and will affect Ruby’s future in ways they could not have imagined …
A gripping and epic tale of love, loss and the distance between three generations of one family.
Janey King is a British journalist and romance novelist, writing under the pseudonym of Rosie Thomas. She is the author of 20 novels and ranks among the top 100 authors whose books are borrowed from United Kingdom libraries. Rula Lenska is one of Britain's best loved actresses. Since her breakthrough in Rock Follies in 1976, she has appeared in numerous movies, television programmes and stage productions. She has appeared in Coronation Street, EastEnders, Doctor Who, One Foot in the Grave and Footballers' Wives and over the past 45 years has worked alongside British stage and screen celebrities Joan Collins, Tim Curry, Bob Hoskins, Penelope Keith, Joanna Lumley, Miriam Margolyes to name a few! Rula has also voiced numerous audiobooks and appeared in several episodes of the BBC Radio 4’s The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which first aired in May 2005.
'Thomas can write with ravishing sensuality.'
*The Times*
'Her evocation of the wartime [Cairo] has all the raffish,
glittering brittleness of life on the edge ... touches on the
varieties and nuances of love between men and women, and the power
of family relationships to enhance and destroy lives.'
*The Daily Mail*
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