Bride of Lucifer

by Violet Winspear

Elvi was quite sure why she married Rodari Fortunato: she loved him. But she was not at all certain why he had married her, a quiet little English nurse whom he scarcely knew. Nevertheless, he had married her, and she ought to have been wildly happy with such a husband – an aristocratic Roman, rich, handsome and passionate, showering Elvi with all the material things she could ever want. But how could she, knowing that all the time Rodari was demanding – and getting – love from her, his own love was given to someone else? He had married Elvi on the rebound from the beautiful Camilla, who had married another man – and did that mean he had forgotten Camilla? Did it even mean that he was no longer seeing her? And how much longer could Elvi put up with the situation?

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Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
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