"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. But Trenchard must plumb the depths of his own despair before the dark secrets of the Davenall family can finally, shockingly, be revealed.
Davenall’s mother and younger brother, who has since inherited the family’s baronetcy, refuse to recognize this stranger as one of their own, and they soon force Trenchard who fears the loss of his wife’s affections and his own sanity into an uneasy alliance against him. Robert Goddard Painting the Darkness: A Novel Hardcover Januby Robert Goddard (Author) 495 ratings See all formats and editions Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 5.87 32 Used from 2.00 7 Collectible from 4.98 Paperback from 28.91 1 New from 28.91 Mass Market Paperback 12.69 6 Used from 12. The stranger offers his name as James Norton, but claims he is in reality Sir James Davenall, the man to whom Trenchard’s wife Constance had once been engaged, and who had supposedly committed suicide eleven years ago. He has no inkling of the destruction this man will wreak on all he holds most dear. When the creak of the garden gate announces the arrival of an unexpected visitor, he is puzzled but not alarmed.
On a mild autumn afternoon in 1882, thirty-four-year-old husband and father William Trenchard sits smoking his pipe in the garden of his comfortable family home. In Robert Goddard’s third novel, a bestseller in the United Kingdom and now back in print, is a masterful exercise in suspense set in Victorian-era England.
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