CAUGHT IN THE LIGHT. [Author SIGNED copy.**]
by GODDARD**, ROBERT:
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn.FINE+/FINE. No owner inscrptn but author's neat,handwritten blue ink signature - without dedication - to title page and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj,with white+grey lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+ fore-edges toned - as usual/normal - with some light dust-soiling spotting to top edges,otherwise the fore-edges are clean and free of marks; contents bright, tight,clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,would appear unread apart from my own collation.Publishers bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain maroon cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a maroon+silver striped headband,and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn,7-346pp [paginated] includes Pts 1-4 comprising 18 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title page,author SIGNED title page,Pts separator pages,last page of text unpaginated,and 4pp blanks at rear.
On an assignment in Vienna,photographer Ian Jarrett falls suddenly and desperately in love with a woman he meets by pure chance, Marian Esguard.Back in England,he separates from his wife and goes to meet Marian at an agreed rendezvous,only to hear her tell him on the telephone that she will not after all be coming.
Then she vanishes from his life mysteriously as she entered it.
Searching frantically for the woman whom he has sacrificed everything,Jarrett stumbles on a Dorset churchyard full of gravestones of dead Esguards.He also meets a psychotherapist,Daphne Sanger. She too is looking for someone: a former patient who has come to believe she is the reincarnation of Marian Esguard,who lived in Regency times and,it emerges, may have invented photography ten years before Fox Talbot.But if so,why is Marian Esguard unknown to history? And who and where is the woman he met and fell in love with in Vienna?
Jarrett sets out to solve a mystery whose origins may be 170 years old and lie amid the magical seeming properties of early photography. But at the end of the search a trap awaits him.He is caught in a web of deception,the revelation of which is Robert Goddard's most cunning twist to date.
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A hugely engrossing read from a master storyteller.On assignment in Vienna, photographer Ian Jarrett falls desperately in love with a woman he meets by chance, Marian Esguard. Back in England, he breaks up with his wife and goes to meet Marian at an agreed rendezvous. Marian fails to show.Searching desperately for her, he stumbles on a Dorset churchyard full of the gravestones of dead Esguards. He also meets a psychotherapist, Daphne Sanger. She too is looking for someone: a former patient who has come to believe she is the reincarnation of Marion Esguard, who lived in Regency times and, it emerges, may have invented photography ten years before Fox Talbot. But if so, why is she unknown to history? And where is the woman he met in Vienna?Ian sets out to solve a mystery that may be 170 years old. At the end of his search a trap awaits him. There is a twist at the end of Caught in the Light that is Robert Goddard's most cunning to date.
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- Title
- CAUGHT IN THE LIGHT. [Author SIGNED copy.**]
- Author
- GODDARD**, ROBERT:
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- Used - FINE+.
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- FINE.
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- UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn.
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0593042662
- ISBN 13
- 9780593042663
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- LONDON.BANTAM PRESS,1998.
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1998
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