The Last Voyage

ReviewJessica Stirlings high reputation is well deserved.Manchester Evening NewsShe writes in bright colours with bold, confident strokes.Glasgow HeraldJessica Stirling is one of Scotlands most prolific and bestloved authors.Scottish Daily RecordOne of the best.BooksellerProduct DescriptionJulie and Anna Martindale have both married artists but they embark on a reckless spiral of deceit, rivalry and betrayal that ends on a fateful voyage to New York.Handsome, freewheeling Clive Cavendish marries Julie after a whirlwind seduction and when his ambitious schemes begin to pay off Julie is more than happy to be the wife of an upandcoming painter and the mother of his children.Annas husband, Howard Buskin, is rich, moody and reclusive. He prefers painting Dartmoors brooding landscapes to his beautiful young bride and from the first their uneasy, loveless marriage totters on the brink of crisis.Only when American art collector Teddy Norris enters their lives with a proposal that Howard cannot ignore, and an easygoing charm that sweeps Anna into a tempestous affair, do the sisters begin to question their loyalty to their husbands and to each other.A loyalty that will be tested to the limit on the first, and last, Atlantic crossing of the White Stars new superliner, the unsinkable Titanic a voyage not all of them will survive.About the AuthorBorn in Glasgow, Jessica Stirling is the author of many heartwarming novels, most of which have Scottish backgrounds. She has enjoyed a highly successful career since THE SPOILED EARTH was published in 1974.