The last days of Leda Grey

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Label

The last days of Leda Grey

Statement of responsibility

Essie Fox

Creator

• trueFox, Essie

Author

• trueFox, Essie

Subject

• Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
• Actresses -- Fiction
• Secrets -- Fiction
• Journalists -- Fiction
• Silent films -- Fiction
• Recluses -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

During the oppressive heat wave of 1976 a young journalist, Ed Peters, finds an Edwardian photograph in a junk shop in the seaside town of Brightland. It shows an alluring, dark-haired girl, an actress whose name was Leda Grey. Enchanted by the image, Ed learns Leda Grey is still living - now a recluse in a decaying cliff-top house she once shared with a man named Charles Beauvois, a director of early silent film. As Beauvois's muse and lover, Leda often starred in scenes where stage magic and trick photography were used to astonishing effect. But, while playing a cursed Egyptian queen, the fantasies captured on celluloid were echoed in reality, leaving Leda abandoned and alone for more than half a century - until the secrets of her past result in a shocking climax, more haunting than any to be in found in the silent films of Charles Beauvois

Cataloging source

VHEI

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no index present

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

adult