Leaning in the wind [Hardcover]

P. H Newby (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 235 pages
• Publisher: Faber and Faber (1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0571145124
• ISBN-13: 978-0571145126
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Destiny, black magic and romance, July 17, 2002

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R. Tiedemann "Sunnye" (Bellevue, NE USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Leaning in the Wind: A Novel (Hardcover)

Edwin Parsier, a successful young lawyer and critically acclaimed poet, meets pretty and articulate Lisa Mullar on board a luxury liner traveling from England the America in the 1950s. Parsier returns to England, marries, rasies a family, prospers. Aston and Shirley Hart are his neighbors, owners of a fabulous old historic estate, "Woods End." Hart commutes to East Africa where he becomes advisor to Idi Amin and comes under a voodoo curse which kills Shirley. Hart winds up marrying Lisa and bringing her to live at "Woods End."

It's a sensitive story about human relationships told with wit and a little black magic thrown in to twist things up a bit. Characters are sophisticated and interesting. The story moves quickly to a fascinating end.