Windmill Hill

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In the 1970s, a single night in a remote hunting lodge with a Hollywood director and his leading lady causes an international scandal that wrecks Astrid's glittering stage career and rips apart her marriage.Her ex-husband, the charismatic Scottish actor Magnus Fellowes, finds global fame, while Astrid retreats to a Sussex windmill. Now 82, she lives there still, with a troupe of dachshunds and her loyal friend, Mrs Baker, who came to clean over twenty years ago, and never left. But Mrs Baker has a troubled past too - one that's caught up with them. There has been an 'Awful Incident' at the windmill, police are sniffing around. Then Astrid hears that Magnus, now on his death bed, is writing a tell-all memoir. Furious, she sets off for Scotland, determined to stop him, at all costs.Windmill Hill is the story of two very different women with painful pasts and their unlikely friendship - deep, enduring and loyal to the last.PRAISE FOR LUCY ATKINS'It was an utter joy to relish Atkins's wonderfully skilled and unobtrusive writing and lose myself in the mystery' Sarah Perry'An utterly compelling read' Claire Fuller'Sly, witty and gripping . . . I loved it' Naomi Alderman'Atkins excels at characterisation' Guardian'A sinewy, supple and gorgeously satisfying triumph' Lucy Mangan'Gripping as well as beautifully written' Polly Samson