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A fast-paced literary thriller in which ex-belly dancer Evangeline’s fight to protect three-year-old Lily draws her into the seedy underworld of her past – the first book in Louisa Young’s celebrated Anglo-Egyptian trilogy of Evangeline Gower novels.
Evangeline is a single parent whose child is the daughter of her sister, who was killed in a motorbike accident. Evangeline, who was driving the bike, sustained injuries which put an end to her belly dancing career. She now leads an exemplary life, writing and looking after Lily. But when she gets into trouble with the police, she is drawn into the shadowy world of drug dealers, pornographers and bent coppers that seems to have bizarre connections with her sister’s past.
With a plot that makes you rush to the end, this is a thriller without violence, a romance without sentiment and a brilliantly exciting novel.
Louisa Young
Louisa Young is a writer and songwriter, a former journalist, a Londoner, and ‘a masterly storyteller’, according to The Washington Post. Her twelve novels include the award-winning My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You trilogy, which Elizabeth Jane Howard called ‘a triumph’. She has also written memoir – You Left Early, a True Story of Love and Alcohol; cultural history – The Book of the Heart; and biography – A Great Task of Happiness: The Life of Kathleen Scott.
Louisa is half of the children’s author Zizou Corder, as whom, with her daughter, the actor Isabel Adomakoh Young, she wrote the Lionboy novels for children. And she has also made an album of her own songs, You Left Early, as Birds of Britain, with Alex Mackenzie.
Louisa’s work is published in thirty-two languages, and she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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