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Buy this book on-line ERSKINE, BARBARA: : Daughters of Fire. [Author SIGNED copy.]LONDON.HarperCollinsPublishers,2006. ISBN 0007174268.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,but author's neat, handwritten black ink signature - without dedication: 'Barbara Erskine' to title page,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,wrap-around monochrome pale coral/orangey photograph montage'd illustrated dw/dj,with white,brown and fluorescent gilt lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.B/w circular adhesive label 'Signed by the Author at Waterstone's to front panel of dw/dj.Top eges slightly aged/toned with some minimal grubbing,fore-edges brighter and also with some light marking - not excessive or pronounced - contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread? Bright,crisp,and generally clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked fluorescent gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain brown endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, SIGNED,1st edn,xi-xiipp+1-562pp [paginated] includes prologue,37 sections and postscripts one+two,a chronology of the story,and author's note.Plus [unpaginated] half-title,author SIGNED title page,a dedication,b/w map (Roman Britain),prose extracts (R.L. Stevenson + W.Shakespeare) and 2pp blanks at rear.
Two thousand years ago,as the Romans invade Britannia,the princess who will become the powerful queen to the great tribe of the Brigantes watches the enemies of her people come ever closer. Cartimandua's world is,fom the start,a maelstrom of love and conflict,revenge and retribution.
In the present day,Edinburgh-based historian Viv Lloyd Rees has immersed herself in the legends surrounding the Celtic queen.She has written a book and is working on a dramatisation of the young queen's life with the help of actress Pat Hebden.
Cartimandua's life takes one unexpected turn after another as tragedy changes the course of her future.But the young queen has formidable enemies - among them Venutios,her childhood sparring partner, and Medb,a woman whose jealously threatens not only her happiness but her life.
Viv's Head of Department,Hugh Graham, hounds her as she struggles to hide her visions of Cartimadua and her conviction that they are real.Her obsession grows ever more persistent and threatening as she takes possession of an ancient brooch that carries a curse.Both Pat and Hugh are drawn into this dual existence of passion and jealousy,of bitter rivalry and overwhelming love as past envelops present and the trio find themselves facing the greatest danger of their lives.
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