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About the book
In this, the third in the Stella Butler trilogy, unforeseen consequences lead to startling changes in our heroine’s life, but as an old friend of hers puts it, ‘Some things don’t just happen. Some things are destined.’
When Stella’s landlord dies leaving her homeless and desperately searching for a place of her own, her working life is thrown into turmoil by attempts to steal the papers of a dead South American writer whose collected works she has been tasked to edit.
As she tries to make sense of disturbing revelations concerning both the writer and his work, an acquaintance from her Venetian past reappears to help her make a decision about her future, which she has been reluctant to face.
About the author
John Harding lives and works in North London and has written on a variety of topics ranging from literary and sporting biography to cultural history and criticism. His book Sweetly Sings Delaney was the first critical study of the life and work of playwright Shelagh Delaney and his Staging Life: The Story of the Manchester Playwrights was the first full-length book on the subject. He is the authorised historian of both the Professional Footballers’ Association and the British Boxing Board of Control, and has written for a variety of publications including Blizzard, The London Magazine, The Footballer, When Saturday Comes, 442, as well as for radio and television. This is his third novel following The House With Three Eyes (2020) and Stealing the Past: A River Tale (2022)
ISBN 9781910996911
About the book
In this, the third in the Stella Butler trilogy, unforeseen consequences lead to startling changes in our heroine’s life, but as an old friend of hers puts it, ‘Some things don’t just happen. Some things are destined.’
When Stella’s landlord dies leaving her homeless and desperately searching for a place of her own, her working life is thrown into turmoil by attempts to steal the papers of a dead South American writer whose collected works she has been tasked to edit.
As she tries to make sense of disturbing revelations concerning both the writer and his work, an acquaintance from her Venetian past reappears to help her make a decision about her future, which she has been reluctant to face.
About the author
John Harding lives and works in North London and has written on a variety of topics ranging from literary and sporting biography to cultural history and criticism. His book Sweetly Sings Delaney was the first critical study of the life and work of playwright Shelagh Delaney and his Staging Life: The Story of the Manchester Playwrights was the first full-length book on the subject. He is the authorised historian of both the Professional Footballers’ Association and the British Boxing Board of Control, and has written for a variety of publications including Blizzard, The London Magazine, The Footballer, When Saturday Comes, 442, as well as for radio and television. This is his third novel following The House With Three Eyes (2020) and Stealing the Past: A River Tale (2022)
ISBN 9781910996911