{"title": "Lord of the Far Island", "key": "/works/OL3931443W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL442995A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "She was that most despised of creatures, a Poor Relation.  Ellen Kellaway, orphaned at five, had been taken in by wealthy cousins, raised as a companion to their daughter - never once allowed to forget that her every advantage was owed to the charity of others.\r\nBut her life of deference and submission was changed utterly when the son of a powerful London family asked for her hand in marriage, and opened up to her a world of untold wealth and social position.  It was a fantasy more wonderful than any she had ever dared to dream . . . \r\nWhy then did a presentiment of doom return again and again to haunt her?  What was the meaning of the lifelong nightmare which had so often troubled her sleep - the image of an unfamiliar room, always the same in every detail, a door opening, and behind it, waiting unseen, a dreadful presence . . . \r\nPerhaps it was a warning of the tragedy so soon to follow.  Or perhaps it was a message sending her to discover, for the first time, the secrets of her long lost family - the secrets of the ancient home of the Kellaways on the Far Island, off the wild coast of Cornwall.  There she would find that a past more powerful than the present was still alive in Kellaway Castle, drawing her deeper and deeper each moment into its dark mystery . . . There she would find the proud and arrogant Jago Kellaway."}, "covers": [290413, 10563463, 11737763, 12627548, 12741604, 5277899, 11031211, 10595624, 10595623, 11877554], "subject_places": ["England"], "subjects": ["Romantic fiction", "Detective and mystery stories", "English Gothic fiction", "Romance fiction", "Love stories", "Fiction", "Man-woman relationships", "Marriage", "Orphans", "Social classes", "Fiction, romance, suspense", "Cornwall (england : county), fiction", "Large type books", "Fiction, mystery & detective, general", "Fiction in English", "Romantic suspense fiction", "Guardian and ward"], "first_publish_date": "1977", "latest_revision": 11, "revision": 11, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T04:53:33.991791"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-03-20T08:41:53.207301"}}