![]() ![]() ![]() Let’s start with the setting, which Stewart evokes with skill. This Rough Magic is one of my four or five favorite Mary Stewart novels.* In addition to Stewart’s gift for suspense, the book offers an engaging heroine, a dark and brooding hero (but not too dark or brooding), the magic and mystique of Shakespeare’s The Tempest and the Mediterranean loveliness of the Greek island of Corfu, all blended together into a nearly-perfect summer read. And without warning, she finds she has stumbled into a nightmare of strange violence, stalked by shadows of terror and sudden death. ![]() Then a human corpse is carried ashore on the incoming tide. A series of incidents, seemingly unconnected - but all surrounded in mystery - throws Lucy's life into a dangerous spin, as fear, danger and death - as well as romance - supplant the former tranquility. Even the suspicious actions of the handsome, arrogant son of a famous actor cannot dampen her enthusiasm for this wonderland in the Ionian Sea.But the peaceful idyll does not last long. She believes there is no finer place to be "at liberty" than the sun-drenched isle of Corfu, the alleged locale for Shakespeare's The Tempest. Her work as an actress has temporarily come to a halt. ![]() When Lucy Waring's sister Phyllida suggests that she join her for a quiet holiday on the island of Corfu, young English Lucy is overjoyed. ![]()
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