Flowers for Lilian (edition 1980)

by Anna Gilbert

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For Maggie Ossian and her mother few summers pass without a visit to the beautiful village of Asherby Cross, enchanting summers which to Maggie bring the added delight of reunion with Lilian, who declares Maggie to be her closest friend. Sometimes Maggie feels a strangeness between them she cannot understand, and never more than this summer, when she gradually uncovers the dreadful secret behind Lilian's strange behaviour - a heartless romantic entanglement which leads to tragedy and death. Maggie is not the only person who knows, and in an atmosphere of growing tension and inevitable catastrophe, retribution suddenly comes from an unexpected quarter...… (more)

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Member:	MarLazarus
Title:	Flowers for Lilian
Authors:	Anna Gilbert
Info:	Hodder & Stoughton Ltd (1980), Edition: First Edition, Hardcover, 267 pages
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Tags:	1980s, Fiction, Gothic, Historical, Hodder & Stoughton, Romance, Suspense

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Last Victorian England and story narrated by Maggie Ossian concerning the village of Asherby Cross, and the tragedy that strikes the village. Of her friendship with Lilian, her illness and her strange behaviour. Are the two subjects intertwined.
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For Maggie Ossian and her mother few summers pass without a visit to the beautiful village of Asherby Cross, enchanting summers which to Maggie bring the added delight of reunion with Lilian, who declares Maggie to be her closest friend. Sometimes Maggie feels a strangeness between them she cannot understand, and never more than this summer, when she gradually uncovers the dreadful secret behind Lilian's strange behaviour - a heartless romantic entanglement which leads to tragedy and death. Maggie is not the only person who knows, and in an atmosphere of growing tension and inevitable catastrophe, retribution suddenly comes from an unexpected quarter...

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DEADLY SECRETS

Something strange was going on in the sunlit village of Asherby Cross... something that had transformed Maggie Ossian's golden, caregree friend Lilian into a haunted creature of midnight secrets and dark, seething passions. No one else was truly aware of Lilian's odd behavior - her mysterious nocturnal disappearances - not even her handsome cousin Francis, whom Maggie had adored since childhood. But when tragedy shook the town, Maggie made an even more shocking discovery - a discovery she dared reveal to no one... until an oddly familiar stranger appeared in Asherby and Maggie found herself trapped in a web of intrigue... an evil garden of sin and seduction where the seeds of revenge took root and deadly desires grew....

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