Since Elizabethan times the Staniers have owed their fortune, so the family legend says, to a bargain with the devil, a story later generations treat with cynical complacency. Colin, the charming younger of twin sons, takes it seriously, and his love for his brother Raymond becomes entangled with the inheritance and a sinister embrace of the old pact.
A darker side of the creator of Mapp and Lucia, mixing English country-house society with the supernatural. Download the free EPUB.