Broken Glass.

Bookseller Notes

Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: 'With Elisabeth Kyle's kindest regards, Sundrum Castle, September 16, 1940'. The novel has at the centre of its landscape a castle in the rather different setting of Transylvania: it begins in 1625, but accelerates through the centuries in its first half, ending in the turmoil that the Great War inflicts upon the region; thereafter, 'the scene is set for a romantic story' (blurb), wherein Octave Dragulescu, a rich young Romanian, falls in love with Sarolta Lukats, who now occupies the castle along with her brother - thereby 'unknowingly giving his assistance to a plot to restore Transylvania to Hungary'.Her third novel, scarce; romance and history were the staples of her work - both germane to her friendship with Josephine Tey.