The Summer Country: A Novel Hardcover -
by Willig, Lauren
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Details
- Title The Summer Country: A Novel
- Author Willig, Lauren
- Binding Hardcover
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 480
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher William Morrow
- Bookseller's Inventory # V22B-03090
- ISBN 9780062839022 / 0062839020
- Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
- Dimensions 9.6 x 6.2 x 1.8 in (24.38 x 15.75 x 4.57 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Inheritance and succession
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2018044474
- Dewey Decimal Code 813.6
From the rear cover
The New York Times bestselling historical novelist delivers her biggest, boldest, and most ambitious novel yet--a sweeping, dramatic Victorian epic of lost love, lies, jealousy, and rebellion set in colonial Barbados
Barbados, 1954: 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, destroyed 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 grand-father 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 deception, greed, clandestine love, heartbreaking betrayal, and a bold bid for freedom.
A brilliant, multigenerational saga that begins in the years of slavery and riches and ends in a time of industry and new beginnings, The Summer Country boldly unravels the legacy of two powerful families, and the secret ties that bind them.Media reviews
Citations
- Booklist, 05/15/2019, Page 37
- Kirkus Reviews, 04/01/2019, Page 0
- Library Journal, 06/28/2019, Page 1
- Library Journal Prepub Alert, 02/01/2019, Page 59
- Publishers Weekly, 04/29/2019, Page 0
