When Jenny Maculan was seventeen, her famous inventor father died, leaving the lonely girl vulnerable to the wiles of Vincent Cheyney. Her marriage to the scheming Cheyney is the beginning of sexual humiliation and degradation for Jenny, who finally...
Private Worlds completes Sarah Gainham's masterly trilogy of twentieth-century Austria. Having survived the Second World War and Vienna's lethal post-war political intrigues, Julia Homburg, Vienna's most brilliant actress, and her trus...
In the aftermath of the Second World War, Vienna is a crucible of fear and superstition, tense with the beginnings of the Cold War and rife with double agents. Robert Inglis, a young British army officer, has been posted to the ruined city to assist ...
This extraordinary and controversial novel is set in Vienna during the tumultuous years from the German Anschluss of 1938 down to the Russian invasion of Austria in 1945. -- The cast of characters is a large and brilliant one, involving all segments ...
Love. After the loneliness, the bitterness of her marriage, his love was like coming home again, like being whole once mom. But then the doubts started, the mysterious omens, the unexplained and the unexplainable past, and the future which suddenly s...