Left a young widow by the Great War, the resourceful Pamela goes to
work for the Jarvises, a charmingly eccentric couple whose elegant
Highgate house is a mecca for artists. She is particularly drawn to
the work of waiflike, Suzannah Murchie, whose powerful portraits
adorn the Jarvises' walls, and to the subject of one of the
portraits, John Ashe. Ashe is a man of contradictions-handsome, but
horribly disfigured; ruthless, but charitable; influential, but
secretive. When she agrees to work for him, Pamela is only half
aware that she is entering into a pact with the devil-a pact which
she gradually determines to turn to her own advantage . . . For
Ashe has gained wealth and influence by preying on the weaknesses
of others, and although Pamela keeps her distance from his
activities, she cannot avoid being tainted by them. Against a
background of 'twenties London, Sarah Harrison's rich and
engrossing novel charts an independent-minded woman's discovery of
the nature of power, and the price of peace.
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