Secret Rooms A Castle Filled with Intrigue, a Plotting Duchess and a Mysterious Death
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Catherine Bailey is the author of two bestselling works of twentieth-century history: Black Diamonds and The Secret Rooms. She lives in London.Gripping. Reads like the best kind of mystery story. It is a tale of mistresses and heirlooms, cowardice and connivance
Sunday Times
'Astonishing, jaw-dropping, superb. Horrifying, extraordinary
Sunday Telegraph
Extraordinary, edge-of-the-seat, enthralling. All the ingredients of a lurid horror. The plot is thick with destroyed documents, decadent aristocracy, betrayed honour and curses
Metro
Compelling. A remarkable piece of research which throws a bright shaft of light on powerful people, hypocrisy and the first world war
- Jeremy Paxman, Guardian, Books of the Year
Wonderful . . . has everything: family intrigue and hatred, love and war, witches' curses, eccentricity, snobbery and a series of shocking secrets. No reader can finish it unmoved
Sunday Express
Teems with hypocrisy, deceit, parental manipulation and bullying. Bailey artfully shows how guilt, grief, pride and shame levied a heavy toll
Literary Review
An extraordinary detective operation
- John Julius Norwich,
Excellent, beautifully crafted, fascinating
Red
Excellent. A fine, suspenseful, atmospheric tale, a less melodramatic and more nuanced Downton Abbey
Daily Express
Bailey's fascinating book takes us to the heart of a family tragedy ... this is a horrifying story of love, despair, intrigue, snobbery and upper class eccentricity which reads like fiction but is amazingly - and shockingly - real
Lancashire Evening Post
The mysterious death of a Duke and a castle full of treacherous goings-on make <i>The Secret Rooms</i> a gripping read for fans of Downton Abbey. As thrilling as any fiction,<b> </b>Catherine Bailey uncovers the darkest depths of a family with plenty of skeletons in its closet
Good Housekeeping