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Thunder on the Right
First published 1957
Jenny Silver travels into the French Pyrenees to visit her cousin Gillian and is told that Gillian has died after a car accident near an isolated convent. The explanation appears settled until a small detail—the colour of flowers placed on the grave—conflicts with Jenny’s knowledge of her cousin’s colour-blindness.
Her questions expose false identities, coercion and a plan dependent on the remoteness of the mountain valley. Stewart uses convent walls, storms and difficult roads as practical obstacles rather than mere Gothic decoration, while Jenny’s search becomes both a rescue attempt and a test of her own judgement.
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