# A Gathering Storm by Rachel Hore (Paperback)

**From the million-copy _Sunday Times_ bestseller comes a gripping story of family secrets, all-consuming love and the chaos of war.**  
  
**2011.** When **Lucy**'s troubled father **Tom** passes away, she travels to Cornwall to visit his childhood home - the once-beautiful Carlyon Manor. Before he died, Tom had been researching an uncle she never knew he had. Determined to find out why, Lucy tracks down **Beatrice Ashton**, a local woman who seems to know more than she lets on, and has an extraordinary story to tell . . .  
  
**1935.** Growing up in Cornwall, Beatrice plays with the children of Carlyon Manor - especially pretty, blonde **Angelina Wincanton**. Then, one summer at the age of fifteen, she falls in love with a young visitor to the town: **Rafe**, whom she rescues from a storm-tossed sea.  
  
On the surface, her life seems idyllic. But the dark clouds of war are gathering, and nobody, not even the Wincantons, will be left untouched.  
  
**_A Gathering Storm_ is a powerful tale of courage and betrayal, spanning from Cornwall to London and Occupied France, in which friendship and love are tested, and the consequences span generations.**  
  
Secrets from the past, unravelling in the present... Rachel delivers intriguing, involving and emotive narrative reading group fiction like few other writers can.  
  
**Praise for Rachel Hore's novels:**  
'Compelling, engrossing and moving' **SANTA MONTEFIORE**  
'Simply stunning . . . I savoured every moment**' DINAH JEFFERIES**  
'A story that stirs the deepest emotions' **_WOMAN & HOME_**  
'An emotive and thought-provoking read' **ROSANNA LEY**  
'Hore tackles difficult subjects with a clever, light touch and a sunny positivity. Her women are brave and good and you desperately want them to win' **_DAILY MAIL_**  
'An elegiac tale of wartime love and secrets' **_TELEGRAPH_**  
'A tender and thoughtful tale' **_SUNDAY MIRROR_**

## Details

- **Price:** 8.99 GBP
- **Vendor:** Simon & Schuster, Limited
- **Tags:** All, thrillers

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> Updated: 2026-09-12