The summer country : a novel / Lauren Willig.
Publication details: New York : HarperLuxe, 2019.Edition: Large print editionDescription: 722 pages (large print) ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780062912299 (trade paperback)
- 813/.6 23
- PS3623.I575 S86 2019
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Large Print Fiction | Hanover Public Library Shelves | LP FIC WILL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31906001141879 |
"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."-- From hardcover edition dust jacket.
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