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Secret for a Nightingale

Secret for a Nightingale( )
Author: Holt, Victoria
ISBN:978-0-449-21296-7
Publication Date:Oct 1987
Publisher:Random House Publishing Group
Imprint:Ivy Books
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $3.50
Book Description:

As a young girl in India, beautiful, high-spirited Susanna Pleydell had first became aware of her special gifts to soothe the sick. But she had sacrificed that calling when she married the dashing and sophisticated Aubrey St. Clare. When they return home to London, however, Aubrey has changed. Susanna discovers she has married a man with a weakness for opium and the occult. And even more menacing, Aubrey has met the sinister Dr. Damien Adar, whose hold over him is fierce and frightening....

Book Details
Pages:408
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Romance / Historical / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):4.26 x 6.87 x 1.2 Inches
Book Weight:0.438 Pounds
Author Biography
Holt, Victoria (Author)
Eleanor Alice Burford Hibbert, 1906-1993 Eleanor Alice Burford Hibbert was born on September 1, 1906 in London England. She knew she wanted to be a writer at a young age, but wasn't published util 1947, with her book "Beyond the Blue Mountains." She wrote under the pseudonym Victoria Holt, a name she used for 90 novels.

In the early 70's, Burford Hibbert added another pseudonym to her repetoire, writing the first volume of her "St. Bruno" series under the name Philippa Carr. She was still writing historical fiction under the name of Victoria Holt as well as yet another pseudonym, Jean Plaidy. She used the pseudonyms Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow and Ellalice Tate as well, although she did not write as much under those names. She wrote over 200 hundred novels during her writing career. In 1989, the Romance Writers of America gave her the Golden Treasure award in recognition of her significant contributions to the romance genre.

Eleanor Alice Burford Hibbert died on January 18, 1993.

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