THE MESMERIST
Book ID/图书代码： 07980006B08950
English Summary/英文概要： Early nineteenth-century London sees the controversial rise of the practice of Mesmerism. Miss Cordelia Preston, a beautiful out-of-work actress, with disturbing secrets to hide, suddenly emerges as a Lady Phreno-Mesmerist. In her candle-lit Bloomsbury basement she finds herself advising young women on marriage. Popular, rich, her success seems unstoppable... But success is fragile when you have a past filled with secrets, pain and loss. On a moonlit night a body is found in Bloomsbury Square:in a crowded coroner’s court love, hate, murder and revenge are dissected and suddenly erupt into a volcanic scandal as Cordelia’s past explodes, bringing not only heartache but terror-and a cloaked figure who waits in the dark and shadowy London streets
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 十九世紀早期的倫敦，正值催眠術興起之際。這種神祕的魔法，引得眾人議論紛紛。Cordelia Preston是個漂亮卻暫時無戲可演的女演員，一直以來，她在心中深深隱藏著一個不可告人的秘密。在消失一陣子之後，Cordelia Preston突然以催眠師的身份，出現在大家面前。在布倫茲柏利的地下室裏，伴隨著忽明忽暗的燭光，Cordelia Preston輔導婚姻受挫的年輕女人，因此得到如雷貫耳的聲名、可觀的金錢，成功似乎只是剛剛開始...但如果人有一段秘密的過去，而它又是你永遠的傷口，那麼你的成功之路，將會是如此的不堪一擊。在一個深夜裏，布倫茲柏利莊園裏被發現的一具屍體引爆了一段愛恨情愁、謀殺和復仇的故事，Cordelia那不可告人的過去，也如火山爆發般不可掩埋、被揭露出來，黑暗、陰霾的倫敦街頭，最為恐怖、悲痛的事即將上演...(TT)
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About the Author/作者介绍： Barbara Ewing (born 1944) is a UK-based actress, playwright and novelist. Born in New Zealand, she graduated from Victoria University of Wellington with a BA in English and Maori before coming to Britain in 1965 to train as an actress at RADA (the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) in London. Barbara Ewing lives in London. She won the Bancroft Gold Medal at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She made her film debut in the horror film Torture Garden (1967) for Amicus Productions, followed by Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968) with Christopher Lee for Hammer Films. Both movies were directed by Freddie Francis.
The television role for which she is best remembered is that of Bradley Hardacre’s mistress Agnes Fairchild in the Granada Television comedy series Brass, alongside Timothy West (1982-84). In 1986, she played Treen Dudgeon in the short-lived BBC series Comrade Dad, alongside George Cole and Doris Hare.
Her 1989 one-woman show, Alexandra Kollontai, about the only woman in Lenin’s cabinet in 1917 was a great hit in London, and at the Edinburgh and Sydney Festivals.
More recent TV appearances have included episodes of Casualty, Doctors and Holby City on the BBC, and The Bill and Peak Practice on ITV, as well as appearances in various adaptations of Ruth Rendell mysteries.
Ewing has written 7 novels to date:
Strangers (1978)
The Actresses (1997)
A Dangerous Vine (1999)
The Trespass (2002)
Rosetta (2005)
The Mesmerist (2007)
THE FRAUD (2009)
這位擁有英國皇家戲劇學院與紐西蘭威靈頓大學英國文學院雙料傲人學歷的知名女演員，除了戲劇成就卓越，文學著作亦有可觀，她豐富的表演背景，讓她的小說充滿了迷人的魅力，讓讀者猶如坐在劇場或螢光幕、銀幕前，目瞪口呆的欣賞她帶來的故事。
Barbara Ewing是英語世界家喻戶曉的老牌演員，也積極參與舞台劇的演出，年輕時從恐怖片起家的她，還曾經與飾演德古拉而爆紅的克利斯多夫˙李（三劍客、斷頭谷、魔戒、星際大戰等片的演員），合演過吸血鬼經典名片。她近年來積極參與電視劇的演出，持續在BBC有作品播放中。
Barbara Ewing迄今已有六部小說問世，創作質量兼具，也屢獲讀者青睞，登上暢銷書排行榜。明年四月，Barbara Ewing的最新力作THE FRAUD即將問世，相當受到各界期待。
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