Stewart called her books "light, fast-moving stories, which are meant to give pleasure, and where the bees in the writer's bonnet are kept buzzing very softly indeed", saying she was "first and foremost a teller of tales, but I am also a serious-minded woman who accepts the responsibilities of her job, and that job, if I am to be true to what is in me, is to say with every voice at my command: 'We must love and imitate the beautiful and the good.'" The author herself had once said she would "take conventionally bizarre situations (the car chase, the closed-room murder, the wicked uncle tale) and send real people into them, normal, everyday people with normal, everyday reactions to violence and fear people not 'heroic' in the conventional sense, but averagely intelligent men and women who could be shocked or outraged into defending, if necessary, with great physical bravery, what they held to be right".
It's an enjoyable reread and I'm glad I picked it up again.'Light, fast-moving stories' … the novels of Mary Stewart The romance seemed very rushed, but the suspense is the main point of the plot. Though a bit dated now, the story is beautifully written, as expected from Ms. I loved it when I first read the book and still delight in the quotes from the play. The idea of using Corfu as the setting and merging in references to The Tempest was brilliant. But soon, bodies begin to appear in this idyllic setting, and Lucy determines to solve the mystery. Lucy and Max do not hit it off right away, but Lucy is charmed by Sir Julien, who likens Corfu to Shakespeare's The Tempest (Prospero is his most famous role). Her neighbors are Sir Julian Gale, the eminent actor of his time, and his son Max, a musician. Lucy Waring has come to Corfu to visit her pregnant sister after the closing of her play. It's on the order of a more action-based Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. This one is a suspenseful romance, though the romance is not the main impetus of the story by any means. I thought a reread was in order, and I'm delighted I did. I read all of Mary Stewart's books many years ago and loved them.
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