City of Secrets: The Extraordinary True Story of One Woman's Journey to the Heart of the Grail Legend (Chaplin Patrice)(Paperback)

It is 1955 and a fifteen-year-old girl, seeking adventure, escapes the greyness of postwar London for the cobbles, sunshine, and romance of an ancient Catalan city. When she falls in love with the place, she also falls for its charismatic leader. As the years pass and the girl becomes a woman and returns again and again to Girona and to her lover, the enigmatic Jos Tarres. She meets captivating characters and hears about visions, a strangely wealthy priest, a fabulous garden owned by a French woman... Cast as the detective in her own story, she finds herself caught up in a world she barely knew existed. The wealthy priest was none other than the Abb Sauni re of Rennes-le-Ch teau, and the mysteries surrounding him are at the very heart of the modern Grail legend--the stuff of bestselling novels and movies, historical analyses, and esoteric intrigues. The people she
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