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The summer country a novel

The New York Times bestselling historical novelist delivers her biggest, boldest, and most ambitious novel yet -- a sweeping Victorian epic of lost love, lies, jealousy, and rebellion set in colonial Barbados. Barbados, 1854: Emily Dawson has always been the poor cousin in a prosperous English merch...

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Main Author: Willig, Lauren (Author)
Format: Downloads eBook Books eBook
Language: English
Published: 2019.
Subjects:
Haunted places > Fiction.
Inheritance and succession > Fiction.
Sugar plantations > Fiction.
Family secrets > Fiction.
Barbados > Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Electronic books.
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Summary: The New York Times bestselling historical novelist delivers her biggest, boldest, and most ambitious novel yet -- a sweeping Victorian epic of lost love, lies, jealousy, and rebellion set in colonial Barbados. Barbados, 1854: Emily Dawson has always been the poor cousin in a prosperous English merchant clan -- merely a vicar's daughter, and a reform-minded vicar's daughter, at that. Everyone knows that the family's lucrative shipping business will go to her cousin, Adam, one day. But when her grandfather dies, Emily receives an unexpected inheritance: Peverills, a sugar plantation in Barbados -- a plantation her grandfather never told anyone he owned. When Emily accompanies her cousin and his new wife to Barbados, she finds Peverills a burnt-out shell, reduced to ruins in 1816, when a rising of enslaved people sent the island up in flames. Rumors swirl around the derelict plantation; people whisper of ghosts. Why would her practical-minded grandfather leave her a property in ruins? Why are the neighboring plantation owners, the Davenants, so eager to acquire Peverills? The answer lies in the past -- a tangled history of lies, greed, clandestine love, heartbreaking betrayal, and a bold bid for freedom.
Physical Description: 1 online resource
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ISBN: 9780062839046
Author Notes: Lauren Willig majored in renaissance studies and political science at Yale University, studied English history at Harvard University, and received a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. She started writing the Pink Carnation series during law school. She practiced as a litigation associate at a large New York law firm for a year and a half before deciding to become a full-time writer.

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