Product Description

Halley's Comet night at Winterscombe in 1910 ends with a violent death which throws a giant shadow over three generations of the Cavendish dynasty. At the centre of events is the beautiful and dangerous Constance, who casts a spell - which may be a curse - on all the sons of the family. Following the destruction of two World Wars - and the passions, deceits and hatreds of the intervening peace - it is the coruscating power of Constance's personality, and the sinister secret at the heart of her life, which will determine if Victoria, last of the Cavendishes, is to inherit happiness or misery.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #80445 in Books
• Published on: 2003-11-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 912 pages

Review
'A rich and engrossing read' - Evening Standard 'Unputdownable' - Company 'Compulsively racy' - Observer 'Totally compelling' - She 'A rich and engrossing read' - Evening Standard 'Unputdownable' - Company

About the Author
Sally Beauman has had great critical and commercial success with all her novels: DESTINY, DARK ANGEL, the series LOVERS AND LIARS, DANGER ZONES and SEXTET, and REBECCA'S TALE have been translated into over twenty languages and have been bestsellers worldwide.

Customer Reviews

riveting family saga
I felt genuinely sorry to finish this gripping tale of murder, mystery, and hidden family secrets over several generations of a family. Unfortunately, although I badly wanted to read it through from beginning to end without pausing (yes, it really was that gripping!)sadly I had to put it down every so often to deal with real life. The author really grabs your interest early in the book and keeps it, when the narrator begins her journey of discovery. To say that she really didn't know her family as well as she thought is quite an understatement!. Her illusions are progressively shattered as the journals of her charismatic, and destructive godmother Constance, turn up some pretty shocking revelations, and an answer to what really happened at the big house party back in 1910, on the night of Halley's Comet.

Didn't want it it end - i was in the book!
This book is so totally engrossing it probably should not be read if you do not have much spare time to read. The past week my whole life has revolved around the brilliant enigmatic love to hate characters of this book.
Sally Beauman provides twists and turns in this beutifully written love story, that you don't beilieve. I could not stop reading - i didn't know what i was going to find out next about the books principle character Constance. You follow her from New York back to Wiltshire and a large hanting Edwardian mansion, and through her diaries back 50 years, to the dark family secrets which have been hidden from Victoria, the narrator for all her life. You really feel for her when shes reading about a world she doesn't recognise, people she thought she knew that all seem alien to her. I thoroughly recommend this one to anyone who likes a murder mystery come love story!

Dark Angel Review
I've read everything that Sally Beauman has ever written, i'm a huge fan.
Out of all the books I have to say Dark Angel is by far the best.
It is totlly gripping and utterly enjoyable I didn't want it to end. Its dark,exciting and very clever. The woman deserves an award shes an outstanding author and deserves to be noticed even more than we give her credit for.
fabalous read everyone should check it out