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Lady Mary Stewart (Author)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks; New Ed edition (18 April 1991)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0340043539
  • ISBN-13: 978-0340043530
  • Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11 x 3.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 113,532 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Paperback
I love Mary Stewart - her romantic fifties & sixties thrillers are gently-paced escapism with well-drawn heroines who, though convincing, always manage to remain effortlessly attractive no matter what tribulations they encounter (in this book, kidnapping and forcible drugging in a disused harem) - thanks largely to a wonderfully outdated reliance on uncrushable man-made fibres. But best of all is the sense of place. The Gabriel Hounds is set in (pre-war) Lebanon in the sixties, and is the most perfect escape from a dreary English winter imaginable. A period piece with beautifully-realised landscape, an attractive and combative heroine and a perfect tall, dark, athletic (completely unrealistic) hero. Love it!
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First published in 1967, Mary Stewart's "The Gabriel Hounds" was for me a racy 'biografictional' read, about Lady Hester Stanhope, a romantic figure, reminiscent in many ways, to Lawrence of Arabia.

Her background was of English Regency aristocracy, and yet she ended up in a palace in Syria, playing the role of the (male) Arab potentate! She is the crux for the character around whom this biographical-novel revolves, but in this case, the reality behind the romance is earthy enough to be believable.

After many years during which Harriet Mansel has hidden herself away in her valley in the Lebanon, two relatives on holiday in the Middle East decide to try to visit her. (Her eccentricity makes them rather unsure of their welcome.) But when they do get in to see her, it looks as though something is wrong - they just can't quite put their finger on what it is.

The Gabriel Hounds is not Mary Stewart's most successful thriller, even though all the usual ingredients are there; the same kind of exotic location shared by all her thrillers up to this point, is more perfunctorily, but still colourfully, sketched in.

Probably, by 1967, she needed more work to come up with somewhere more provocative and evocative than her later leafy rural England books and Lebanon in the 1960's was the playground of the rich, as the South of France, still is today.

The plot lacked slightly at times, but all in all, it was still a very enjoyable read and great if you're planning a trip to Lebanon and Syria and want something to put you in the mood, especially in the winter!

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Fascinating & Romantic 8 April 2003
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It's amazing to try and envisage an era where this part of the middle east was a tourist destination and I guess Mary Stewart wrote this improbable but engaging story in the last gasp of that time. All her usual fun and frolics, but I was a bit concerned by the almost incestuous connection between her hero/heroine but putting that aside the Gabriel Hounds also introduced me to Lady Hester Stanhope. There's always some literary or historical other dimension to her novels that add that something extra.
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