In a lonely house above Dartmouth Bay lives General Sir Hugh Weir: a solitary figure, austere to the point of vanity and as contemptuous of weakness in others as in himself.
Behind him he has left a trail of broken lives – friends, lover, wife, son. Now two more people begin to feel the force of his restless compelling nature: Shirley Forsdike, a neurotic, hero-worshipping schoolmistress who has yet to meet him, and Frank Cauldwell, an impecunious young writer.
Out of the shifting conflict raised by their emotions and experiences Francis King constructed a taut novel of passion and despair.
- ISBN10 1447258193
- ISBN13 9781447258193
- Publish Date 5 December 2013 (first published 21 November 2013)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 3 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Imprint Macmillan Bello
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 264
- Language English