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Graham Broadbent, a successful novelist, enjoys a quiet life of writing and occasionally meeting up with old friends. On the evening of one such occasion, a rather intriguing surprise arrives at his door in the form of Christabel, a pretty blonde nineteen-year-old. 'Hello Dad' are her first words as he opens the door to her. To his knowledge, Graham has no children and he is certain that he can't be this girl's father. There is every reason why he should do nothing about this strange intrusion into his life and just send the girl away. And yet all sorts of irrational urges make him act against his own common sense: he simply can't stop himself getting involved. As he becomes ever more embroiled in Christa's life, Graham is forced to take a trip down memory lane. And when the girl's mother is found strangled, Graham knows he must look into the dying flames of the past to find her killer. A masterful execution of plot and character, "Dying Flames" is the latest novel by the award-winning author Robert Barnard.
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The main character, Graham Broadbent, is a well-known author who decides to attend a school reunion. While he is in town a knock comes at his hotel room door, and an attractive nineteen-year-old woman, Christa, enters and declares that he is her father. Indeed Graham remembers having had an affair with Christa's mother, Peggy, a girl known for her exquisite acting in George Bernard Shaw's "St. Joan". Graham is able to eliminate himself from the fatherhood with some arithmetical calculations, but his curiosity is aroused.
As luck would have it, Peggy has concluded that Graham must be the father, with the apparent hope that some of Graham's rather minimal celebrity will rub off. She arranges a celebratory dinner at which she makes the announcement of Graham's paternity to her adult son - who, to everyone's surprise, rejects it vehemently and with a great deal of genuine anger.
No one is surprised when Peggy goes missing immediately after this disastrous dinner, especially when she leaves behind a note indicating that she's gone off with some bloke. Apparently this isn't an unusual event. As the days go by and no one hears from her, however, it appears that something more sinister has happened...
The novel is very well read by Gordon Griffin for Soundings Audiobooks.
As luck would have it, Peggy has concluded that Graham must be the father, with the apparent hope that some of Graham's rather minimal celebrity will rub off. She arranges a celebratory dinner at which she makes the announcement of Graham's paternity to her adult son - who, to everyone's surprise, rejects it vehemently and with a great deal of genuine anger.
No one is surprised when Peggy goes missing immediately after this disastrous dinner, especially when she leaves behind a note indicating that she's gone off with some bloke. Apparently this isn't an unusual event. As the days go by and no one hears from her, however, it appears that something more sinister has happened...
The novel is very well read by Gordon Griffin for Soundings Audiobooks.
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Robert Barnard, currently lives with his wife in Yorkshire. He was born in Essex on 23 November, 1936. Educated at the Royal Grammar School in Colchester and at Balliol College, Oxford, taking his Ph.D. from the University of Bergen, Norway, in 1972, he spent many years as a distinguished academic while establishing himself as one of today's most distinguished crime writers. His fascination with the pure detective story is evident in his many novels.
Novelist Graham Broadbent has a good life and one that he can enjoy thanks to the success of his writing. Like many of the characters he has invented and written about over the years, he prefers to keep a low profile, an unassuming man with no skeletons in his cupboard.
But all that changes one evening, an evening much like many others. He is about to leave to speak at his old school reunion when there is a knock on his hotel door. Standing there is an attractive young woman who tells him that she is twenty years old and that her name is Christa. She then drops the bombshell and tells Graham that he is her father. Graham finds himself embroiled in a mess of deception and lies. Something far beyond any book plot he has ever conceived.
Novelist Graham Broadbent has a good life and one that he can enjoy thanks to the success of his writing. Like many of the characters he has invented and written about over the years, he prefers to keep a low profile, an unassuming man with no skeletons in his cupboard.
But all that changes one evening, an evening much like many others. He is about to leave to speak at his old school reunion when there is a knock on his hotel door. Standing there is an attractive young woman who tells him that she is twenty years old and that her name is Christa. She then drops the bombshell and tells Graham that he is her father. Graham finds himself embroiled in a mess of deception and lies. Something far beyond any book plot he has ever conceived.
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Robert Barnard, currently lives with his wife in Yorkshire. He was born in Essex on 23 November, 1936. Educated at the Royal Grammar School in Colchester and at Balliol College, Oxford, taking his Ph.D. from the University of Bergen, Norway, in 1972, he spent many years as a distinguished academic while establishing himself as one of today's most distinguished crime writers. His fascination with the pure detective story is evident in his many novels.
Novelist Graham Broadbent has a good life and one that he can enjoy thanks to the success of his writing. Like many of the characters he has invented and written about over the years, he prefers to keep a low profile, an unassuming man with no skeletons in his cupboard.
But all that changes one evening, an evening much like many others. He is about to leave to speak at his old school reunion when there is a knock on his hotel door. Standing there is an attractive young woman who tells him that she is twenty years old and that her name is Christa. She then drops the bombshell and tells Graham that he is her father. Graham finds himself embroiled in a mess of deception and lies. Something far beyond any book plot he has ever conceived.
Novelist Graham Broadbent has a good life and one that he can enjoy thanks to the success of his writing. Like many of the characters he has invented and written about over the years, he prefers to keep a low profile, an unassuming man with no skeletons in his cupboard.
But all that changes one evening, an evening much like many others. He is about to leave to speak at his old school reunion when there is a knock on his hotel door. Standing there is an attractive young woman who tells him that she is twenty years old and that her name is Christa. She then drops the bombshell and tells Graham that he is her father. Graham finds himself embroiled in a mess of deception and lies. Something far beyond any book plot he has ever conceived.
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