Half Light

by Frances Fyfield (Author)

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  Paperback
  2005

  $3.25

  Elisabeth is a picture restorer. This gives her the solitude and independence she needs - living and working alone in her flat. Despite her skills and reliability, Elizabeth undercharges for her work - valuing the worth of the paintings rather more than herself. Her ambitions are modest: beauty to look upon, unintrusive friendships and complete privacy. But when a mysterious and obviously wealthy man commissions her to restore his fabulous collection, an uncharacteristic combination of curiosity and financial need prompts her to accept his offer. Elisabeth soon realises her error, as the past and the present combine to make privacy her nemesis. As she becomes hostage to her patron, her lover and her friend realise they know nothing about her, or where she might be.

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  Paperback
  2008

  $3.25

  Half Light Elisabeth is a restorer of paintings, delighting in her work as she coaxes secrets from damaged canvas. One day she disappears. Her lover Francis, his fears dismissed by the police, searches for her with the help of Annie Macalpine, an antiques dealer. Annie finds out that Elisabeth is trapped in an elegant prison, restoring art for a wealthy collector, whose grip on reality is giving way as his grip on Elisabeth is tightening...Let's Dance Isabel Burley returns to her childhood home to look after her mother, who has Alzheimer's disease. Serena is prey to the threats of failing memory, her inability to run her own home - and the local villains who are eyeing her isolated house. But Isabel finds that a further threat comes from within, as the two women struggle with their love/hate relationship that has roots deep into the past.