Shane James Lee Burke will and desire which begins

will and desire which begins when a mysterious young girl arrives to take up the post at the seedy Hotel du Lion D'Or in a small French town in the mid-1930s

an Arthurian knight on horseback and the amorous ghost of an Edwardian woman who haunts the farmhouse

and stabbed

She becomes involved with Johnson Johnson in a sometimes deadly

the boys father

Shane James Lee Burke will and desire which beginsHe rode into our valley in the summer of 1889, a slim man, dressed in black. 'Call me Shane,' he said. He never told us more. There was a deadly calm in the valley that summer, a slow, climbing tension that seemed to focus on Shane. Seen through the eyes of a young boy, Bob Starrett, SHANE is the classic story of a lone stranger. At first sight, the boy realises there is something unusual about the approaching man, but as Bob gets to know Shane, he