The Charmed Circle Hardcover – 1 April 1989 by Catherine Gaskin (Author)

Copyright © 1988 by Catherine Gaskin Cornberg All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the Publisher. Charles Scribner's Sons Macmillan Publishing Company 866 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10022 This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Printed in the United States of America Catherine Gaskin, acclaimed author of the international bestseller The Ambassador's Women, returns with her most spellbinding novel ever, The Charmed Circle. Set in wartime Britain, where danger and the threat of invasion pervade daily life, The Charmed Circle takes us into the lives of Julia, Constance, and Alex, the three beautiful and talented daughters of renowned actor Michael Seymour and his famous pianist wife. They seem to have everything within their grasp-fame, love, money, and power. Their charmed circle is, indeed, happy and blessed until the Battle of Britain, the London Blitz, and ill-fated love destroy their idyll and test their courage. Only in adversity do they fully comprehend how much they have and how easy it is to lose it all. The story belongs mostly to Julia, a brilliant young actress, who