Nora, disappointed with Stirling and weirdly fascinated with the Lynx, marries him. But when she gets to Australia, Stirling's father, known as "the Lynx," wants her too, and Stirling defers to his father in this as in almost everything else. She's escorted by Herrick's son Stirling, and falls in love with Stirling on the trip. Set in Victorian England and Australia, this tells the story of 17 year old Nora Tamasin, a strong-willed young British woman who travels to Australia when her father dies, accepting the protection of her father's partner, Charles Herrick. But this is not a romance so much as it is a story of obsession and revenge. Published in 1971, this was later days for Victoria Holt, when I imagine she was tired of writing governess-marries-the-lord-of-the-manor stories. I stayed up way too late the other night paging through this one. The Shadow of the Lynx is one of the four Victoria Holt novels that I picked up in an omnibus volume the other day.
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