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The Last Days of Leda Grey by Essie Fox is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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279 pages ; 20 cm A bewitching novel about an enigmatic silent film actress, and the volatile love affair that left her a recluse for over half a century - for fans of Sarah Waters and Tracy Chevalier. 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 First published: 2016
Who reads The Last Days of Leda Grey?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Essie Fox
- Publisher
- Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781409146278
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Mystery, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.72 / 5 (130 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14