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Sands of Time
by Erskine, Barbara
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0002257866
- ISBN 13
- 9780002257862
- Seller
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CEDAR GROVE, West Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Harper Collins, 2003-09-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x1. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. 319 pages; light edge wear to jacket and boards, tanning to page ends; Haunting tales from the shifting sands of time.A brilliant new collection of stories, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lady of Hay and Hiding from the Light. Sands of Time features two intriguing long stories that pick up the fortunes of characters from Whispers in the Sand, Barbara Erskine's captivating novel of Egypt. Still haunted by ancient mysteries, and the subject of dark intentions, Anna and Louisa must once more do battle with the past in order to survive the present. Here, too, are a host of other tales, all with a touch of the unexpected...A happily married woman has an affair – with a man who died in the First World War...Who is the little girl on the swing in the garden – and why does only Charlotte see her? And how can a traveller find herself transported suddenly from her airplane seat to the snowy Canadian wastes below? Suspense, romance, passion, unexpected echoes of the past – vintage Barbara Erskine, and storytelling at its most compelling.
Synopsis
Haunting tales from the shifting sands of time.A brilliant new collection of stories, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of HIDING FROM THE LIGHTA spine-tingling collection of stories from the bestselling author of Lady of Hay and Hiding from the Light.Sands of Time features two intriguing long stories that pick up the fortunes of characters from Whispers in the Sand, Barbara Erskine's captivating novel of Egypt. Still haunted by ancient mysteries, and the subject of dark intentions, Anna and Louisa must once more do battle with the past in order to survive the present.Here, too, are a host of other tales, all with a touch of the unexpected...A happily married woman has an affair – with a man who died in the First World War...Who is the little girl on the swing in the garden – and why does only Charlotte see her?And how can a traveller find herself transported suddenly from her airplane seat to the snowy Canadian wastes below?Suspense, romance, passion, unexpected echoes of the past – vintage Barbara Erskine, and storytelling at its most compelling.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Kayleighbug Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016184
- Title
- Sands of Time
- Author
- Erskine, Barbara
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0002257866
- ISBN 13
- 9780002257862
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2003-09-01
- Size
- 9x6x1
- Bookseller catalogs
- Romance;
- X weight
- 23 oz
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About the Seller
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CEDAR GROVE, West Virginia
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