An enchanting book. Take an idyllic English country house estate, with gardens, meadows, woods, a river, an island complete with folly and set it in a racy 1920s golden summer. People it with eccentrics, war heroes and survivors, slim young things and a pre-pubescent wunderkind and stir with Roman and Egyptian mythology, voodoo and lost tribe shamanism. Then sprinkle with ghosts and memories, death and sex.
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