Elizabeth Stavely sits in the Bodleian library with trembling hands. Before her is a fragment of parchment which has about it a dusty fragrance of roses, of sadness and great age. Here is the clue she has been looking for, to a story that has been untold for four hundred years.
The aviary gate
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461 pages
English language
Published June 8, 2008 by Windsor.
Subjects
- Harems
- Social life and customs
- Courts and courtiers
- British
- Fiction
- Court and courtiers
- Manners and customs
- History
Places
- Turkey
- Istanbul (Turkey)
- Istanbul