Death of a Unicorn by Peter Dickinson is Today's Nook Daily Find

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Death of a Unicorn by Peter Dickinson as today's Barnes & Noble Nook Daily Find.

The deal price of $2.99 is valid only for today, Monday, October 07, 2013.

Note: The price has been matched by Amazon.com for today only.

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Death of a Unicorn
Peter Dickinson
A Novel of Suspense
Small Beer Press

Mabs Millett is the reluctant heiress to Cheadle Abbey, one of Vanbrugh's monstrous piles. At a deb dance in the early fifties she meets a financier who offers her a job as an assistant to the editor of the social diary on a magazine he has just bought, a cross between Punch and The Tatler. She writes an account of a deb dance from the viewpoint of a feather-headed deb, which becomes a weekly feature in the magazine, and eventually a best-selling book, anticipating the U and non-U furore of a few years later.

Meanwhile she has become the financier's mistress, deeply in love with him and with her work. After ten months of happiness her world falls apart with his gunning down in a street in Buenos Aires.

Thirty years later she is a hugely successful romantic novelist, exploiting her fan-base to attract tourists to Cheadle. An old colleague from the magazine asks to see her. Details emerge that cast fresh light on her lover's mysterious death, and eventually reshape her world.

 

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