Living In The ManiototoAll I had experienced, all the stories I had read or dreamed came to me the moment I, a stranger, turned the key in the lock of the unknown house.' In a sweltering basement in downtown Baltimore, Mavis Halleton, writer, ventriloquist and gossip, is struggling to write her novel when an unexpected invitation arrives. The Garretts, a couple Mavis has never heard of but who admire her work, are to spend time in Italy, and offer the use of their airy home

former Deputy Leader of the Labour Party

High King of the Cornovidi

An orphanage girl she has long kept house for the high-handed Rab Montgomery and his two other sons

his seminal Silicon Valley startup

Irresistible sweets

she discovers there is a light at the end of the tunnel

A National Bestseller

the more she realizes that beneath the swagger and the blue uniform is a complex man who makes her heart beat too fast

Can Jack and Max save themselves and the scientist from almost certain death

the gilded lives of the rich and famous

'Not just utterly readable - an instant fantasy classic' KIRKUS REVIEWS (STARRED)

Funny and informative