Against the Light: An Irish Nationalist Mystery Set in Edwardian London

by Marjorie Eccles

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A baby is kidnapped - and the repercussions reach the highest levels of government in this absorbing historical mystery

London, April, 1912. The third Irish Home Rule Bill is passing through Parliament and the situation is growing ever more tense. Closely involved in the negotiations, cabinet minister Edmund Latimer finds himself under growing pressure - which only intensifies when his seventh-month-old niece Lucy is snatched away in her pram in Regent's Park.

Could there be a connection between Lucy's kidnapping and the Irish talks? With her husband under intolerable strain, Edmund's wife Alice makes it her business to find out. But the more she discovers, the more she realizes how little she really knows the man she married five years before.

  • ISBN10 1847517242
  • ISBN13 9781847517241
  • Publish Date 31 March 2017 (first published 31 May 2016)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Canongate Books Ltd
  • Imprint Severn House
  • Edition Main
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 224
  • Language English