Monday, 8 July 2013

The Temptress - Paul Spicer 2010 ***


Interesting account of the mysterious death of Lord Erroll in Kenya's decadent "Happy Valley" in the 1940s. The book is really more centred around Alice De Janze, a beautiful American heiress who marries a Count and becomes entangled in a number of affairs but does go into some detail about the death of Lord Erroll and how he relates to Alice. The book chronicles Alice's early life, her depression, and then later on, her passionate and obsessive relationship with a man she ends up trying to murder. 
It's well written and informative, although I did every find it hard remembering all the different people and their relationships towards each other.

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