The aviary gate

Description:

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.

subjects: Harems,  Social life and customs,  Court and courtiers,  Courts and courtiers,  Manners and customs,  British,  Fiction,  Historical,  Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945),  Istanbul (turkey), fiction,  Fiction, historical, general,  Fiction, general

Places: Turkey,  Istanbul (Turkey),  Istanbul

Times: 16th century