The first is a wealthy man hoping to find the lover he deserted twenty-one years before. Two unexpected visitors arrive at a shabby warehouse on the south side of the River Thames. #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory’s new historical novel tracks the rise of the Tidelands family in London, Venice, and New England. Named a Most Exciting New Book of Fall by PopSugar Named a Best Book of the Month by CNN and MSNBC
All of her books feature strong, complex women, doing their best to improve their lives in worlds dominated by men’ Sunday Times ' Immaculate research, pacy narratives and a stubborn insistence that history is not only about men.
It would be hard to make history more entertaining, lively or engaging' Sunday Express ‘Gregory has popularised Tudor history perhaps more than any other living fiction writer. THE BRAND NEW SERIES FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR Praise for Philippa Gregory: ‘ Popular historical fiction at its finest, immaculately researched and superbly told’ The Times 'Philippa Gregory is truly the mistress of the historical novel. This is the time of witch-mania, and Alinor, a woman without a husband, skilled with herbs, suddenly enriched, arouses envy in her rivals and fear among the villagers, who are ready to take lethal action into their own hands. Suspected of possessing dark secrets in superstitious times, Alinor’s ambition and determination mark her out from her neighbours. Instead she meets James, a young man on the run, and shows him the secret ways across the treacherous marsh, not knowing that she is leading disaster into the heart of her life. Alinor, a descendant of wise women, crushed by poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free from her abusive husband.
The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even to the remote Tidelands – the marshy landscape of the south coast. Midsummer’s Eve, 1648, and England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. A dangerous time for a woman to be different. ***PRE-ORDER DAWNLANDS, THE STUNNING NEW NOVEL FROM PHILIPPA GREGORY, OUT SOON IN PAPERBACK*** England 1648.
0 kommentar(er)
