The Dreamers

By Sara Fraser

The Fancy Man is back – in the final instalment of Sara Fraser’s magnificent trilogy.

It is 1909, and the people of Redditch are, perhaps more than ever, split between the haves and the have-nots. Harry and Emma Vivaldi are among the lucky ones, but Harry’s drinking and gambling have long since taken their toll on his fledgling business, and the cracks are beginning to show in the Vivaldi marriage.

Further strain is placed on their fragile truce with the arrival of Adrian West, the flamboyant impresario of a travelling theatre company. With his natural charm and splendid Mercedes he cuts a considerable dash in the streets of Redditch, and Emma soon falls under his spell . . .

Meanwhile poor Laura has her hands full with tragic Tommy Spiers. Bad luck seems to chase her like a shadow, and when she breaks her arm at work it’s hard to see where the next meal is coming from. Cleopatra Dolton has helped her before – but can she go to her again, cap in hand?

And what of Miriam? Saved from a life of obscurity by embracing the suffragette movement, her devotion to the cause makes her a regular inmate of Holloway Prison. But so many visits to that hellish place have affected her health, and when her doctor advises her to leave the ‘deleterious’ air of London Town, where better to effect a recovery than back at home?

And through it all, the Fancy Man himself returns to the seat of his infamy – Johnny Purvis, who changed all their lives, remains a man of mystery. Hero or villain, friend or lover, who knows which role he will play at the end?

Sara Fraser is the pen-name of marine commando and foreign legionnaire Roy Clews. Fraser is the author of The Surgeon’s Apprentice, Til Death Do us Part and The Healing Nightfall, among many others. Fraser has written a number of mysteries as well as a number of novels influenced by a life of travel and work all over the world.

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