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Across the decades and two world wars, from England to the Aegean unfolds a legacy of failed expectation, deceit and violent death, the resolution of which lies in the terrible decoding of a bloodline.
It started with a bang. The bullet which killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 not only triggered the Great War, but grazed the temple of Lionel Robertson - patriarch, collector and old rogue - and ignites the gunpowder trail of this extraordinary novel.
Robertson's flight from the Balkans leads him to Crete and a lifelong obsession with the excavation there of Ariadne's Summer Palace. But for subsequent generations of the Robertson family, a dark shadow emanates from the ancient site, a series of mysteries which will engulf Lionel's son and even his grandson.
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Roderick Beaton was born and brought up in Edinburgh, and went on to study English Literature at Cambridge. After graduating he spent three years travelling and studying in Greece before returning to the UK to pursue an academic career. Roderick Beaton has written several books on modern and medieval Greek literature. He is married with two sons and lives in London. Ariadne's Children is his first novel.
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