The Ivy Tree, Mary Stewart
The Ivy Tree, Mary Stewart
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The Ivy Tree
The beloved love story from the Queen of Romantic Mystery

Author: Mary Stewart

Narrator: Amy Molloy

Unabridged: 15 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/15/2019

Synopsis

Mary Stewart, one of the great British storytellers of the 20th century, transports listeners to rural Northumberland for this tale of romance, ambition, and deceit - a perfect fit for fans of Agatha Christie and Barbara Pym.

Whitescar is a beautiful old house and farm situated in Roman Wall country. It will make a rich inheritance for its heirs, but in order to secure it, they enlist the help of a young woman named Mary who bears remarkable resemblance to missing Whitescar heiress, Annabel Winslow. Their deception will spark a powder-keg of ambition, obsession and long-dead love.

The ivy had reached for the tree and only the tree's upper branches managed to thrust the young gold leaves of early summer through the strangling curtain. Eventually the ivy would kill it . . .

'There are few to equal Mary Stewart' Daily Telegraph

'Mary Stewart is magic.' New York Times

'One of the great British storytellers of the 20th century' Independent

'The Ivy Tree has the ideal thriller blend of plot, suspense, character drawing and good writing' Daily Express

(P)2019 Hodder & Stoughton Limited

About Mary Stewart

Mary Stewart was one of the 20th century's bestselling and best-loved novelists. She was born in Sunderland, County Durham in 1916, but lived for most of her life in Scotland, a source of much inspiration for her writing. Her first novel, Madam, Will You Talk? was published in 1955 and marked the beginning of a long and acclaimed writing career. In 1971 she was awarded the International PEN Association's Frederick Niven Prize for The Crystal Cave, and in 1974 the Scottish Arts Council Award for one of her children's books, Ludo and the Star Horse. She was married to the Scottish geologist Frederick Stewart, and died in 2014.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ on February 28, 2018

Deception and hidden identity are at the heart of this 1961 Mary Stewart novel. Mary Gray travels from Canada to Northumberland in northern England. There she's accosted on Hadrian's wall, in the middle of nowhere, by an extremely handsome but very hostile guy, Con Winslow. Con is certain that she's......more

Goodreads review by Susan's Reviews on August 04, 2021

I thoroughly enjoyed this blast from the past. It was originally published in 1961, so when Mary Stewart describes Annabel and Adam as being former "lovers," that is as much detail the reader ever receives about their relationship. How far did they go, you keep asking yourself? Adam was a married ma......more

Goodreads review by karen on June 19, 2020

i admit i have a weakness for all that wuthers, so i really enjoyed this. it's got everything you need to make your own gothic romance playset, so it's a little predictable, but it's a quick read and perfectly acceptable (i.e. not to be ashamed of)escapist fiction. plus, they reissued them in these......more

Goodreads review by mark on August 31, 2019

the Northumberland countryside is windswept and stark, beautiful and craggy and treacherous, trees ready to fall, paths to get lost on, cliffs to be tossed from. the heroine is frustrating: her mind moves back and forth, in the plan and then out of it, untrustworthy, uttering apologies of the "I'm j......more

Goodreads review by Willow on April 20, 2013

I’ve been kind of putting off writing a review for this. I guess it’s because I didn’t enjoy it quite as much as the other Stewart books I’ve read. There was no exciting car chases or exotic locations. The hero was a real dud for me. I always felt like the author was holding information back, which......more

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