Sands of Time

Sands of Time
Barbara Erskine

A spine-tingling collection of haunting tales, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lady of Hay.Sands of Time features two intriguing stories that pick up the fortunes of characters from Whispers in the Sand, Barbara Erskine's captivating Egyptian novel. Still haunted by ancient mysteries, and the subject of dark intentions, Anna and Louisa must once more do battle with the past in order to survive the present.Alongside these are a host of other tales, all with a touch of the unexpected. A happily married woman has an affair – with a man who died in the First World War. Who is the little girl on the swing in the garden – and why does only Charlotte see her? And how does a traveller find herself transported suddenly from her airplane seat to the snowy Canadian wasteland below?Suspense, romance, passion, unexpected echoes of the past – vintage Barbara Erskine, and storytelling at its most compelling.

COPYRIGHT (#ulink_c1300236-57b3-5075-a5d9-5e73aacfe621)

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First published in 2000

Published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2016

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Source ISBN: 9780006512097

Ebook Edition © March 2016 ISBN: 9780007320981

Version: 2017-09-08

EPIGRAPH (#ulink_043bac5a-bc82-5ca4-9440-a25852ce9ea1)

If poets’ verses are but stories, so are food and raiment stories. So is all the world a story. So is man of dust a story.

St Columba

Contents

Cover (#u1e783e59-6e5a-563e-be38-5c3ad720c692)

Title Page (#ue2af9eee-2da3-52f6-acc0-de84fce7087b)

Copyright (#uce1854d7-7b57-521c-8e08-0813cd83e4a9)

Epigraph (#u951713cb-c2ab-58e3-aac5-7b3b5bd9ef88)

Preface (#uabfb2f2f-9f06-51f7-9a32-9f798b292b82)

The Legacy of Isis (#ubf33648a-3de4-5f52-94ff-035abba71ed7)

What Price Magic? (#uc927d169-9279-525c-a727-73165eefb035)

Between Times (#u08a7ef6c-7273-5837-b033-821fbb9afad3)

Sea Dreams (#uf051dd45-c80f-511f-82bb-18ff4d6ba006)

The Footpath (#litres_trial_promo)

Sacred Ground (#litres_trial_promo)

Damsel in Distress (#litres_trial_promo)

The Last Train to Yesterday (#litres_trial_promo)

Party Trick (#litres_trial_promo)

Lost in the Temple (#litres_trial_promo)

Random Snippets (#litres_trial_promo)

On the Way to London (#litres_trial_promo)

Second Sight (#litres_trial_promo)

The Cottage Kitchen (#litres_trial_promo)

The Room Upstairs (#litres_trial_promo)

Moonlight (#litres_trial_promo)

The Girl on the Swing (#litres_trial_promo)

An Afternoon at the Museum (#litres_trial_promo)

Day Trip (#litres_trial_promo)

Barney (#litres_trial_promo)

You’ve Got to Have a Dream (#litres_trial_promo)

First-class Travel (#litres_trial_promo)

Moving On (#litres_trial_promo)

‘You’ve Got a Book to Write, Remember?’ (#litres_trial_promo)