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Author
Publisher
Harper
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
457 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a novel where the setting moves from the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century, an African slave and concubine is determined to claim her own destiny against impossible odds.
Author
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
464 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the author of The Tea Planter's Wife comes a sweeping story of love and betrayal set in Ceylon in 1935. Louisa Reeve, the daughter of a British gem trader, and her husband Elliot, a charming, thrill-seeking businessman, seem to have it all. Except the one thing they long for: a child. After Elliott's sudden death, Louisa is left alone to solve the mystery he left behind.
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