Who is the tough cookie on the cover of the book? She certainly isn't Daisy, for Daisy is a true innocent (albeit one with bad taste in boyfriends!)"... Daisy was conscious of his eyes upon her... something flashed between them, like magnesium, and in that instant he was printed on her memory for ever--the thin, swarthy face, the mouth arrested in a half-smile, the eyes brown, alert, ready to dance, with a sort of wildness asleep behind their steady gaze. A poacher's face she said to herself ... she might as well have said an angel's ... or a fallen angel's--she was never to care which..."Daisy and Hugo's love is a tangled web of joy and tragedy, vice and innocence, betrayal and loyalty. This is a story which cannot be put down.
A Tangled Web is an updated and fictionalised retelling of the story of John Williams, who was hanged for murder in 1913, and of his mistress Florence Seymour.
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