This is a mysterious and atmospheric tale
set in north Pembrokeshire and the industrial districts of South
Wales in the Victorian era. Marching through the pages of the
book there are some truly Dickensian characters, including Sergeant
Dafydd Gruffydd and the Emperor of China. A strange memoir called
“The Ghost of Inglestone” is found among the rejected
Gothic novels and other papers of the long-defunct London publishers
Pickersniff and Jebson. It is written by a woman called Susanna
Ravenhill, an author unknown from the records of Victorian literature.
Who was she, and what was she doing in London in 1857? Is the
story autobiographical, or is is a work of wild fantasy? Susanna
senses that she has some high destiny to fulfill, but she is
fleeing from a dark secret which is known only to a small group
of fellow conspirators. To make matters worse, she is pursued
without mercy by a group of armed men whose motives are unclear.
She fears, with good reason, that they have murder or blackmail
in mind. She keeps one step ahead of them through her own cunning
and through the intervention of various guardian angels who
see it as their job to protect her. But then, in Paris, her
implacable enemy catches up with her, and from that point on
she has to cope with a threat far bigger than anything she has
ever faced before.
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Guardian Angel by Brian John, Greencroft Books, 2007,
ISBN 978-0-905559-86-5. A5 paperback, 256 pp, £6.99.
Published 28 October 2007.
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