Good as Gold: The Sinking of Titanic - What really
A magician of genre fiction’ Independent One autumn day in 1992, former pop singer Lennart Cederström finds something unexpected in the forest: a baby girl in a plastic bag, partially buried. He gives her the kiss of life, and her first cry astounds him; it is a clear, pure musical note. He takes her to his wife and persuades Edie was never one to do what she was told. A brunette among a family of blonds, she was always the rebel. When she is pushed to join the family banking business, she needs distraction. So she begins to delve into the family archive to uncover the truth about her great-grandfather Kit. Branded a coward and a thief, Kit escaped from Titanic and was rumoured to have carried a fortune into the lifeboat with him. What, Edie wonders, happened to it? Edie's excavations reveal shocking facts about Titanic’s sinking that are destined to rock the world. What’s more, she unearths some recent secrets that reveal Edie’s family business is not all it seems. As she attempts to right her family's wrongs, her position becomes increasingly dangerous. Her twin brother, her parents, her uncle – is there anyone out there she can trust? About the Author No one is better placed than Louise Patten to give the inside story on the corporate world she knows so well. Louise broke through the corporate glass ceiling to become one of a tiny handful of female FTSE Chairmen. She is now Senior Adviser to Bain & Company, and is a non-executive director of Bradford & Bingley and Marks & Spencer. She is married with one daughter and lives in London and Somerset
