The Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot Nevil Shute 'The pre-eminent detective novelist of

'The pre-eminent detective novelist of his generation'

the daughter of a local innkeeper renowned far beyond the Lakes as the 'Maid of Buttermere' for her beauty

is that the maps he draws are real

he anticipates excitement

Now these people exist only in the bare bones of registers and census lists but they were once real enough

The Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot Nevil Shute 'The pre-eminent detective novelist ofMeg Eliot is the wife of a successful barrister and with that comes a lovely home in Westminster, cocktail parties and a round of charity committees. She is the model wife and her life is one of ease, contentment and privilege. All that changes though when she is suddenly left widowed after a senseless tragedy. Totally alone she is thrust into a struggle to reconstruct her life as she realises that she doesn't really know who she is anymore or who she