Barbara Vine; B. Vine

Like most families, they had their secrets ...And they hid them under a genteelly respectable veneer. No onlooker would guess that prim Vera Hillyard and her beautiful, adored younger sister, Eden, were locked in a dark and bitter combat over one of those secrets. England in the fifties was not kind to women who erred, so they had to use every...

Blood. That#8217;s what Martin Nanther#8217;s great-grandfather Henry was interested in. As Queen Victoria#8217;s favoured physician he became expert in diseases of the blood, particularly the royal disease of haemophilia. But, as Martin discovers whilst researching Henry#8217;s life, he was not just expert #8211; he was obsessed. Yet reading...