Keepers of the House

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Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award 1982 Exceptional Observer Lydia Sinclair was just seventeen when she arrived on her husbands estate in the Andes, and from the first day she felt that she belonged there. Keepers of the House tells the story of a young English woman newly married to a sugar planter. As her husband, the last of the Beltran family line, retreats into himself, Lydia finds solace in the stories of Benito, the familys oldest retainer. Unearthing the Beltran familys tragic history, she weaves together a rich gothic tapestry in which the fantastic legends of the past are intertwined with the present.

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Exceptional ... Richly evocative and cunningly crafted * Observer *
A haunting and unforgettable work of art -- Paul Bailey

Author Bio

Lisa St Aubin de Tern was born in London in 1953. She left England at the age of sixteen and, with her exiled Venezuelan husband, travelled extensively through Europe for two years before returning to his family home in the Andes. For seven years, she ran her husbands sugar and avocado estate, drawing on these experiences in her first novel, Keepers of the House which won the Somerset Maugham Award.