Sweet Poison

"Sweet Poison" by Mary Fitt, published by Moonstone Press. 'Augustus knows he is inconveniencing a great many people, and he is enjoying this. He will not change his mind.' Augustus Gale was a man in love-with a woman of genius who had been dead for over a century. So great was his dedication to the memory of playwright Joan Farmer that Augustus bought her ancestral home, steeped himself in the local history, and attempted to enforce a Regency-style lifestyle on his entire household. This macabre devotion poisoned his life as well as the lives of his son and daughter, his beautiful second wife, and even his devoted mother. Yet it was a strictly confined historical obsession. When a party of archaeologists sought permission to excavate a rare Roman mosaic pavement on Augustus's land, disrupting his homage to Joan, they were met with a blunt, contemptuous and destructive refusal. It might be said that Augustus Gale was a man who "asked for it", but whose was the hand that fed him the poison? Mary Fitt... Book details: published 2024. Order now on BookShops.in with fast, reliable delivery across India.