David Hobbs and Anne Marlow

During her lifetime Kathleen Ferrier both as a person and a musicain evoked world wide admiration and affection These feelings persist: many people wanted to know more about her life and work. Her sister Winifred who encouraged her in the early years in Lancashire and was her constant companion in the hard working years of her triumph has written her life story. Winifred Ferriers detailed life of her sister is here combined with the Memoir edited by Neville Cardus in which tribute is paid to this great artist by Sir John Barbirolli, Benjamin Britten, Roy Henderson, Gerald Moore and Bruno Walter. 

CONTENT WARNING: Contains out dated language.

When Mark Castallack sees his longed-for inheritance Penmarric, a gothic mansion on the bleak cliffs of Cornwall, and the mysterious, mesmerising Janna, he knows that he will make them his and nothing will stand in his way. Yet when Mark realizes his dreams, Penmarric only brings a legacy of conflict, jealousy, infidelity and betrayal.

Robert Godwin's tumultuous ride on the Wheel of Fortune begins with his passion for his sensual cousin Ginevra, as they waltz to 'The Blue Danube' beneath the chandeliers at Oxmoon, his beloved family home in Wales. As Robert discovers, his rational, well-ordered mind will be forever altered by his obsession for Ginevra, and his destiny will be forever linked to Oxmoon by the skeletons which lurk in the family closet...

For fifty years, from the sinister summer afternoon of 1913 to the 1960s, the Godwin family are sucked into a maelstrom of passion, disorder, madness and murder. Fortunes rise and fall in this sweeping, compulsive tale, until the Wheel of Fortune finally comes full circle.