The Girl at the Lion D'orA beautifully controlled and powerful story of love and conscience, will and desire which begins when a mysterious young girl arrives to take up the post at the seedy Hotel du Lion D'Or in a small French town in the mid 1930s.

the beautiful daughter of a famous and wealthy liberal journalist and intellectual

Increasingly desperate and alone

The war in Europe is drawing to a close

lovers linger in secret gardens

battle and conquest

to the cells of Newgate prison

A novel about a bargain struck between a quiet man who runs a sweet shop and his emotionally damaged wife who has to accept life's deprivations

I know it's ridiculous

dark pasts and criminal endeavours in this masterful narrative’ Lilja Sigurðardóttir____________________A murder is just the beginning…When Óttar Karlsson

He's much more interested in telling her a story about a ruthless ganglord and a fifty year old betrayal

and the repercussions of this incursion constitute the events of the novel

the characters in Justin Hills novel live in the half-light between remembered doctrines and the newly-discovered pursuit of wealth and fulfilment