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Overview: Christianna Brand was born in 1907 in Malaya and spent her early years in India. She had a number of different occupations, including model, dancer, shop assistant and governess.
Christianna Brand’s most appealing characteristic as a writer was her ability to blend complex and intriguing plots with a lively sense of humour conveyed both through character and dialogue. Brand herself admitted: ‘I write for no reason more pretentious than simply to entertain.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
Starrbelow (1958) (as by China Thompson)
A young Italian woman travels to eighteenth-century England to wage war on polite society in this sweeping historical saga of mystery, scandal, and romance. Sophia Devigne is a child of Venice, as much a part of the wonderful island city as the canals themselves. If it were up to her, she would never leave, but her family has other ideas. For the sake of her British father’s honor, she’s being sent to London to make her societal debut. Her father hopes she’ll attract a wealthy husband and retire to a life of polite boredom in the English countryside, but beneath Sophia’s genteel exterior lurks the wild spirit of Venice, which will thrust her headlong into the scandal of the century. When Sophia wins the hand of the dashing Lord Weyburn, she believes her troubles are over. But his elegant Cotswold estate, Starrbelow, is just another gilded cage. Desperate to be free, she escapes to town—and embarks on a wild debauch that shocks all London. Never again will she call herself Sophia. Now she’s Sapphire, and she’ll bow to no man. But when her wild indulgences embroil her in a suspicious death, Sapphire is accused of murder, and faces the merciless judgment of the court of public opinion. On trial by society, she will live or die as she always has: unbroken and standing tall. This stirring recreation of eighteenth-century English society combines adventure, murder, and timeless romance.
Court of Foxes (1969)
A young widow proves that modesty can be deceptive when she becomes the toast of London
The Marchesa goes to the theater accompanied only by her maid. She dresses in pure white, without any jewels or powder to compete with her golden hair and blue eyes. In the London society of King George III, this modesty is enough to cause a sensation. Night after night, every bachelor in London sends her flowers, hoping to win an audience with this mysterious, enigmatic beauty, but none have come close to a seat in her box.
None of them guess that the Marchesa wears no jewels because she cannot afford them. None of them know that she is not a Marchesa at all. She is Marigold Brown, a poor girl from Gloucestershire who is about to mount the greatest con London has ever seen—if falling in love doesn’t get in her way.
The Honey Harlot (1978)
One woman has the answer to history’s strangest maritime mystery
Though history would remember her as the Marie Celeste, the ship’s name was Mary Celeste. She was a brig—square-rigged, a hundred feet long, large enough for a crew of nine, and sturdy enough to cross the Atlantic and bring profits home to its masters—a beautiful ship that was destined for tragedy. On December 4, 1872, the Mary Celeste is found adrift off the coast of Portugal with cargo in her hold, food upon her tables, and half-written letters on her captain’s desk. But not a soul can be found on board. This mystery has puzzled maritime scholars for over a century. One woman knows the answers, because she was there from the beginning, and knows the seductive “Honey Mary” the ship was secretly named after. As she retraces the events that lead up to that fateful voyage, she finds that the mind can be as dark and cold as an ocean grave.
The Brides of Aberdar (1982)
In the old Tudor manor house of Aberdar, ghosts return to haunt each new generation.
Getting down from the carriage at Aberdar Manor, the new governess, Miss Tetterman, is repelled by the pervasive shadows and gloom–until little Lyneth and Christine come flying into her empty arms. No one can resist these motherless twins, and from this day on, Lyneth and Christine will always be Tetty’s "darlings." Who else would immediately accept Tetty and her scarred face? But she is so warm and good, perhaps Sir Edward himself will grow too fond of her–or so fears the bitter spinster Tante Louise, plotting against the intruder.
The gentle Hil, who manages the estate, might also be a suitable match for Tetty. But Hil has a dim ability to see into the future, and so he greets Tetty with dread. At first only Hil knows of the ancient curse that hangs over the future brides of Aberdar–but once the Aberdar women are engaged or married, the ghosts of the Manor begin to show themselves, unleashing their seductive power to enmesh and destroy.
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