Patrick Browning first sees Anne Fitzgerald in the British Museum, her head tilted, watching the beautiful frozen stone bodies of the Elgin Marbles. Both are young historians, and both have been drawn to research the same subject: Mary Nisbet, the notorious wife of Lord Elgin. Anne thinks the present is thin and frightening, but finds the past compelling; Patrick's lover claims he likes life at one remove, preferring the woman in a book to one in real life. But before long, their research spills over into an all too real ...
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Patrick Browning first sees Anne Fitzgerald in the British Museum, her head tilted, watching the beautiful frozen stone bodies of the Elgin Marbles. Both are young historians, and both have been drawn to research the same subject: Mary Nisbet, the notorious wife of Lord Elgin. Anne thinks the present is thin and frightening, but finds the past compelling; Patrick's lover claims he likes life at one remove, preferring the woman in a book to one in real life. But before long, their research spills over into an all too real rivalry, a rivalry charged with tension and attraction - a rivalry which twists their own, scarred love affairs to breaking point ...
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