![]() ![]() Yet its proximity to Albania drives some of its impoverished residents into risky smuggling, and the aggression of the Communist bloc is an inescapable threat. ![]() ![]() In Stewart’s lush depiction, Corfu’s people are warm and its history colorful (Julian Gale is convinced it’s the inspiration for Shakespeare’s The Tempest). But when two local inhabitants are mysteriously drowned, Lucy stumbles onto a dangerous mystery and into conflict with Julian Gale’s composer son Max. The island is verdant and balmy, a dolphin comes to frolic with her when she swims in the bay, and she is thrilled to discover that iconic actor Julian Gale has been living in seclusion in a nearby castello since his retirement from the English stage. She travels to visit her sister in Corfu, where her sister’s wealthy husband owns several properties. Lucy Waring is a struggling actress whose most recent London show has just closed, leaving her at a loose end. Though the text doesn’t mention a year, references to the closed borders and communist government of nearby Albania suggest that the story takes place in the late 1950s or early 1960s. ![]() It was serialized in the same year, in Good Housekeeping in the US and in Woman’s Journal in the UK. This Rough Magic, Mary Stewart’s eighth published novel, appeared in both the UK and US in 1964. ![]()
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