A Spring of Love

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Esther Williams is thirty and single. She lives with her grandmother in a small house and her life is one of routine and order; she takes a seaside holiday each year and every Thursday she goes to the cinema alone.

She does not know if she is happy or unhappy with her life - it merely follows the same pattern that it has always done. Until one day, on a Thursday night, she meets Raymond Banks.

Raymond becomes everything to Esther. Suddenly she feels, for the first time ever, truly alive. Raymond alters her awareness of the world around her and she is soon very much in love with him.

But when she discovers something about Raymond that threatens to ruin their happiness Esther is horrified . . .

A beautifully observed novel about love in all of its guises this is a gripping and unforgettable story of tension, betrayal and, ultimately, how we can never truly know anyone.

Reviews

'Queen of the eerie, Celia Dale takes you on an unforgettable tale.' - Stylist


'A perfectly sinister read.' - Vogue

Author Bio

Celia Dale was born in 1912 to parents who were both on the stage. She was once a secretary to Rumer Godden, and also worked as a publisher's advisor and a book reviewer. Her first novel, The Least of These, was published in 1943, and she went on to write twelve others. She won the 1986 Crime Writer's Association Veuve Cliquot Short Story Award for 'Lines of Communication', which appears in her only short story collection, A Personal Call and Other Stories. She died in 2011.