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The Far Side of the Sun
First published 2014
Nassau, 1943. Dodie Wyatt has tried to build a new life in the Bahamas when she becomes involved with a wounded stranger, while diplomat's wife Ella Stanford moves through the island's wealthy political society and the circle surrounding the Duke of Windsor, then governor of the colony. Wartime shortages, racial tension and the pressures of an isolated island complicate both women's attempts to protect their secrets.
Their lives become entangled with the murder of mining magnate Sir Harry Oakes, one of the most notorious unsolved crimes of the wartime Caribbean. As the investigation and scandal spread through Nassau, privilege, corruption and personal loyalties are tested. Furnivall uses the real Oakes murder and the Duke of Windsor's governorship as the historical framework for a thriller about two women drawn together by danger.
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