Read The Splendour Falls Online
Authors: Susanna Kearsley
Tags: #Historical, #Mystery, #Romance, #Contemporary, #Fantasy, #Adult
The Splendour Falls (32 page)
If you walk the streets of Chinon, you will find each setting and each building mentioned in this story. Because of this, I wish to remind the reader that while the places may be real, the people who inhabit them are entirely fictional.
To the Chinonais, I offer my apologies, for moving their
gendarmerie
. To Paul Rhoads, who became my guide, and to Dorothee Kleinmann, who shared her Chapelle with me, I give my heartfelt thanks.
And to all my friends at the Hotel de France, both past and present, I dedicate this book.
BY SUSANNA KEARSLEY
‘Like something out of the pages of
Daphne du Maurier’
Daily Express
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S
USANNA
K
EARSLEY
was a museum curator before she took the plunge and became a full-time author. The past and its bearing on the present is a familiar theme in her books. She won the prestigious Catherine Cookson Fiction Prize for her novel
Mariana
, and was shortlisted for the Romantic Novel of the Year Award for
Sophia’s Secret
(also published as
The Winter Sea
).
www.susannakearsley.com
Mariana
The Splendour Falls
The Shadowy Horses
Season of Storms
Every Secret Thing
(
previously published under the name Emma Cole
)
Sophia’s Secret
(
also published as
The Winter Sea)
The Rose Garden
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First published in Great Britain in 2012.
This ebook edition first published in 2012.
Copyright © 1995 by S
USANNA
K
EARSLEY
The right of S
USANNA
K
EARSLEY
to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All characters and events in this publication other than those clearly in the public domain are fictitious and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
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A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN 978–0–7490–1182–6