The Silent Tide Pa

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-09-12 Pages: 528 Language: English Publisher: Simon & Schuster When Emily Gordon. editor at a London publishing house. commissions an account of great English novelist Hugh Morton. she finds herself steering a tricky path between Mortons formidable widow. Jacqueline. whos determined to protect his secrets. and the biographer. charming and ambitious Joel Richards. But someone is sending Emily mysterious missives about Hugh Mortons past and she discovers a buried story that simply has to be told ... One winters day in 1948. nineteen year old Isabel Barber arrives at her Aunt Penelopes house in Earls Court having run away from home to follow her star. A chance meeting with an East European refugee poet leads to a job with his publisher. McKinnon & Holt. and a fascinating career beckons. But when she develops a close editorial relationship with charisma...