# Lord of the Far Island

**Author(s):** Eleanor Burford
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**Genres:** mystery, romance, literary-fiction
**Pages:** 336
**Publisher:** Ivy Books
**Published:** Wed Jan 01 1975 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780449228746
**ISBN-10:** 0449228746
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/lord-of-the-far-island

## Description

She was that most despised of creatures, a Poor Relation.  Ellen Kellaway, orphaned at five, had been taken in by wealthy cousins, raised as a companion to their daughter - never once allowed to forget that her every advantage was owed to the charity of others.
But her life of deference and submission was changed utterly when the son of a powerful London family asked for her hand in marriage, and opened up to her a world of untold wealth and social position.  It was a fantasy more wonderful than any she had ever dared to dream . . . 
Why then did a presentiment of doom return again and again to haunt her?  What was the meaning of the lifelong nightmare which had so often troubled her sleep - the image of an unfamiliar room, always the same in every detail, a door opening, and behind it, waiting unseen, a dreadful presence . . . 
Perhaps it was a warning of the tragedy so soon to follow.  Or perhaps it was a message sending her to discover, for the first time, the secrets of her long lost family - the secrets of the ancient home of the Kellaways on the Far Island, off the wild coast of Cornwall.  There she would find that a past more powerful than the present was still alive in Kellaway Castle, drawing her deeper and deeper each moment into its dark mystery . . . There she would find the proud and arrogant Jago Kellaway.

## SageChimp reader verdict

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**Themes:** Crime Investigation, Gothic