The Silver Flame is a 1928 novel by the British writer James Hilton.[1] The original British publisher was Butterworth. In 1949 it was published in the United States in by Avon under the alternative titleThree Loves Had Margaret.[2] It has been described as the last of his "apprentice novels" before he emerged as a major international author.[3] The story takes place on a Cotswold estate between 1896 and 1926.
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