Description for MEMORY AND DESIRE by Justine Harlowe: Katmandu, Nepal... NATASHA---JENNIE MARRIED IN GREECE ARRIVING WITH HUSBAND---LONDON 7 OCTOBER 1973.---ANTHONY It is the simplest of messages, yet it promises a shattering collision of two very different families: one a dynasty---three generations of beautiful women who have lived in wealth, their lives shaped by the men they loved; the other, a humbler lineage---a mother and son born in poverty, tantalized by tidbits of luxury tossed their way by wealthy patrons. The telex has reached Natasha de Vernay in Nepal, where she is gathering unique and exotic times for her smart shop in London. Radiant at forty, only two generations removed from the Russian court, Natasha stands at the brink of worldly success, yet unbidden memory and forbidden desire come flooding back as she faces meeting her estranged husband. At their country estate, Anthony de Vernay awaits his wife's arrival, hiding beneath his cool, aristocratic facade a lingering passion...a secret shame. The reunion is more fateful than either Anthony or Natasha can guess. Jennie, their daughter knows neither the role her husband has played in her family's past nor the dark provenance of his identity. For forty years, from royal London in the thirties to opulent North Africa in the fifties, from the exotic island of Santa Eulalia to the underside of Baltimore in the days of World War II, this confrontation has been building. Now, at last, the extremes of love will come fact to face, haunted by what has been, yearning for what can be.
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