A chance encounter at a summer party sent writer Josceline Dimbleby on a quest to uncover a mystery in her familys past. After talking with Andrew Lloyd Webber about a beautiful, dark portrait in his art collection, she decided to find out more about the subject of the painting: her great-aunt Amy Gaskell. Dimbleby had always known her great-aunts face from this haunted portrait by the well-known Pre-Raphaelite painter Sir Edward Burne-Jones, but beyond that and a family rumor that Amy had died young of a broken heart, Dimbleby knew little of her female forebears.At the start of her search, Josceline came across a cache of unpublished letters from Burne-Jones to her great-grandmother May Gaskell, Amys mother. These letters turned out to be part of a passionate correspondenceadoring, intimate, sometimes up to five letters a daywhich continued throughout the last six years of the painters life....
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