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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Another winner from Lauren Willig - not my favorite of her works, but it highlights a part of history that isn't often discussed. Worth a read for sure! ( ) Another amazing historical fiction from Lauren Willig, she never disappoints. This was a time and location I knew little about and the story kept me quickly turning page after page and not wanting to put it down. I felt totally immersed in colonial Barbados. and wanting some rum punch and needed a fan. 5 stars. I've been reading Ms. Willig's books since the first Pink Carnation book came out, and she just keeps getting better and better. She writes more historical fiction now than earlier (though the Pink Carnation series was also historical as well as romantic), and they're well researched and enthralling reads. Emily has inherited a rundown sugar plantation in Barbados during the Victorian era. The story alternates between her earlier ancestors' time in the Regency era when slavery was at its last gasps in the British colony and Emily's attempt to understand why her grandfather left her this ruin. I do love the way she ends one chapter that picks up in the other time period seamlessly. The characters are interesting; all are shades of gray with both morals and faults. The ending was a bit of a surprise but also very satisfying. Fans of Diana Gabaldon or Susanna Kearsley will definitely like this book. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. Historical fiction set in Barbados, in the early 1800s in the peak of sugar cane plantations under slave labor and juxtaposed with the 1850s, when an English family travels there so Emily can see her inheritance, which is the ruined plantation of Peverills. Chapter by chapter the lies, intrigue and love unfold, drawing you along as you figure out who was related to whom, and the chain of events that sparked a slave uprising, changes in the laws and who's granddaughter Emily really was. Emily Dawson's grandfather leaves her a sugar plantation in Barbados. She sails to the island along with a cousin who will manage other her grandfather's other holdings and his wife Laura. She discovers the plantation house burned to the ground but that a couple other homes including the bookkeeper's home remain. A nearby plantation survived the slave uprising of the early 19th century, escaping the fire. The story alternates between the two 19th century time periods (1812-1815 and 1854). In the intervening years, slavery ended in Barbados. Cholera rages on the island and will take someone close to her. She is able to practice her nursing skills by helping a capable island doctor. She must also come to terms with a story her grandfather did not tell her. I loved this book and the story it tells. I want to read some of the historical sources cited in the author's historical note. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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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. A brilliant, multigenerational saga in the tradition of THE THORN BIRDS and NORTH AND SOUTH, THE SUMMER COUNTRY will beguile readers with its rendering of families, heartbreak, and the endurance of hope against all odds. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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