Ferney - Softcover

A story of love and self discovery that resonates across the ages (Nicholas Evans)

'The book grips . . . It belongs to the unputdownable, so goodbye sleep. I love it . . . the whole story sang --(Mary Wesley)

'A lovely puzzle . . . an enthralling, ambitious novel with distinct echoes of Hardy' --(Mail on Sunday)

'If a book ever deserved a second chance, it's this; a historical novel, a love story and a tale of time slippage, just the tale you need when you want to escape into a book and forget the world for 480 pages. I first read this many years ago and it was --(Sue Baker, Publishing News)

One of the most brilliant timeslip novels ever written,Ferney will appeal to fans of The Time Traveller's Wife and Life After Life. When Mike and Gally Martin move to a cottage in Somerset, it's to make a new start. But the relationship comes under strain when Gally forms an increasingly close attachment to an old countryman, Ferney, who seems to know everything about her. What is it that draws them together? Reluctantly at first, then with more urgency as he feels time slipping away, Ferney compels Gally to understand their connection - and to face an inexplicable truth about their shared past. A passionate love story that spans the centuries, fall under the spell of Ferney.