Broken Bodies

For two hundred years passionate men and women have fought over the Elgin Marbles, one of the world s most prized antiquities. Two contemporary young historians, Anne Fitzgerald and the American Patrick Browning are both seduced by Mary, Lord Elgin's hypnotic and adulterous wife but wary of each other. The discovery of Mary's love letters and diaries lead them not just to revelations about the Elgins but to unearthing the existence of a vital missing piece of the marbles. Then Patrick is attacked, his flat is ransacked and Anne's lover becomes exaggeratedly possessive. In a breath-taking climax in a small Athens chapel the past and the present collide in a swirl of betrayal, greed, passion, and, finally, redemption.