This haunting, elegiac tale about the secret love of a man destined shortly to die, was published in the year before the author's death and is her last novel. S... » 

This haunting, elegiac tale about the secret love of a man destined shortly to die, was published in the year before the author's death and is her last novel. She also wrote All Passion Spent, The Edwardians, Family History, Seducers in Ecuador and The Heir. «