The Black Candle

The Black Candle

Bridget Deane Mordaunt was a woman of some consequence in her own part of the world. Inheriting her father's businesses at the age of nineteen, by the time she was twenty-three in 1880 she was running them with as firm and confident a hand on the tiller as any man. She had also become known as a good and considerate employer whose workers could regard their ‘Miss Bridget' with affection as well as respect.

Yet the path destiny required Bridget to follow was not an easy one. Her feckless cousin Victoria became infatuated with Lionel Filmore, the fortune-hunting elder son of an old but impoverished family living in the decayed grandeur of Grove House. Bridget had no illusions about Lionel, but at the same time Victoria's happiness was something for which she would give and yield much. So a pattern began to form that would shape the lives of generations to come; a pattern of some good and some great evil, but all of it inexorably linking Bridget ever more closely with the Filmores and their House.

The Black Candle displays all the skills of narrative and the shrewd perception of human strengths and frailties. This is a story spanning nearly half a century, ever engrossing, with a diversity of brilliantly realised characters, particularly Bridget Mordaunt, a strikingly memorable woman who illustrates the truth that while people are changed by events they remain essentially the same inside.
Country USA
Manufacturer Peach Publishing
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-11-20
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Peach Publishing
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2013-11-20
Format	Kindle eBook

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