A Golden Sorrow

About the Book

This is spellbounding adventure, exciting history made dramatic and riveting by modern, crackling dialogue, and characters who leap out from the page with eloquent,sensual, emotional power. Laced with an immediacy of wit and romance, this is a stylish, soul-stirring story vividly bringing to life a moving and richly passionate moment in history. Filled with surprises in every chapter, this colorful story actually moves, whisking the reader along on an extraordinary journey, brilliantly economic and gracefully executed. One can easily visualize it as a film, much like a combination "The Lion In Winter" and "Shakespeare In Love". The final resolution is shattering in its power and poignancy.

About the Author

PEGGY PHILLIPS has been a professional writer and public relations specialist for more than 40 years. In the 1960s and '70s she was Director of Publicity for Center Theatre Group at the Los Angeles Music Center and the L. A. Civic Light Opera. A member of the Dramatists Guild and Writers Guild of America ,she is a Broadway playwright and a film and television writer whose credits include DAYS OF OUR LIVES, LASSIE, NATIONAL VELVET, THE DONNA REED SHOW, MY THREE SONS, KRAFT THEATRE and YOU ARE THERE. An avid scuba-diver, she has dived some of the world's most remote sites including the Red Sea. Her first published novel, TWO WOMEN UNDER WATER (Fithian Press, 1998) was based on a dramatic encounter in that setting.