Troy Chimneys - Kennedy, Margaret
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A Victorian gentleman is forced by illness to entertain himself with the family archive and he uncovers the Regency-era correspondence and diaries of one Miles Lufton MP - apparently a black sheep of the family connected with a scandal long buried. But through the pieced-together artefacts from the past a fuller picture emerges of a man torn between two personalities - Miles serious studious and penniless and 'Pronto' flirt political mover and eternal 'extra man'. Miles longs to dispose of his disreputable alter ego but that way lies calamity...

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Produktbeschreibung
A Victorian gentleman is forced by illness to entertain himself with the family archive and he uncovers the Regency-era correspondence and diaries of one Miles Lufton MP - apparently a black sheep of the family connected with a scandal long buried. But through the pieced-together artefacts from the past a fuller picture emerges of a man torn between two personalities - Miles serious studious and penniless and 'Pronto' flirt political mover and eternal 'extra man'. Miles longs to dispose of his disreputable alter ego but that way lies calamity...
Autorenporträt
Margaret Moore Kennedy (1896-1967) was an English novelist and playwright. Her most successful work, as a novel and as a play, was The Constant Nymph. She was a productive writer and several of her works were made into films.Kennedy's first novel had been The Ladies of Lyndon (1923). She went on to write over 20 novels as well as publishing a biography of Jane Austen and a study of the art of fiction, Outlaws on Parnassus.