Dark Angel – Sally Beauman

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On Halley’s Comet night, 1910, a violent death throws a giant shadow over three generations of the Cavendish dynasty. Ar the centre of events is the beautiful and dangerous Constance, who casts a spell – which may be a curse on all the sons of the family. Following the destruction of two World Wars and the passions, deceits and hatreds of the intervening peace it is the coruscating power of Constance’s personality, and the sinister secret at the heart of her life, which will determine if Victoria, last of the Cavendishes, is to inherit happiness or misery. ‘In Dark Angel she writes a sex scene that matches and in some ways surpasses anything I’ve read by Philip Roth… I don’t think anyone writes about sex better than she does, or so intimately understands the power play that is part of every sexual encounter… once you start reading a Beauman novel, you cannot put it down…. LINDA GRANT, GUARDIAN