The Resource The Summer Country
The Summer Country
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The item The Summer Country represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Williamsburg Regional Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item The Summer Country represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Williamsburg Regional Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- "Tense, atmospheric, and gorgeously written, The Summer Country is a novel to savor!" – Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Huntress and The Alice NetworkA brilliant, multigenerational saga in the tradition of The Thorn Birds and North and South, New York Times bestselling historical novelist Lauren Willig 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.THE SUMMER COUNTRY will beguile readers with its rendering of families, heartbreak, and the endurance of hope against all odds
- Language
- eng
- Isbn
- 9780062839046
- Label
- The Summer Country
- Title
- The Summer Country
- Statement of responsibility
- Lauren Willig
- Subject
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- trueHistorical fiction
- trueFamily secrets
- trueLocal history
- trueVictorian era (1837-1901) -- 1837 -- 1901
- trueSlaves
- trueInterracial romance
- trueInheritance and succession
- trueNeighbors
- truePlantation life
- trueRegency period (1811-1820) -- 1811 -- 1820
- trueRace relations
- trueFreed slaves
- trueWomen plantation owners
- trueColonialism
- trueWest Indies
- trueSugar plantations
- trueFamily sagas
- trueParallel narratives
- trueHistorical Fiction
- Thriller
- trueBarbados
- trueFamilies
- trueSlave resistance and revolts
- trueLiterature
- Fiction
- trueSugar plantation owners
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Tense, atmospheric, and gorgeously written, The Summer Country is a novel to savor!" – Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Huntress and The Alice NetworkA brilliant, multigenerational saga in the tradition of The Thorn Birds and North and South, New York Times bestselling historical novelist Lauren Willig 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.THE SUMMER COUNTRY will beguile readers with its rendering of families, heartbreak, and the endurance of hope against all odds
- Summary
- Inheriting the ruins of a Barbados sugar plantation, a young woman from Victorian Bristol is seduced by the region's dark tropical beauty at the same time her new neighbors take steps to acquire the property for themselves
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- 10781524
- Cataloging source
- DLC
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- Willig, Lauren
- Dewey number
- 813.6
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
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- Fiction
- Literature
- Thriller
- Historical Fiction
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The Summer Country
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm.
- Form of item
- electronic
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- True
- Isbn
- 9780062839046
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- True
- Specific material designation
- optical disk
- Label
- The Summer Country
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm.
- Form of item
- electronic
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- True
- Isbn
- 9780062839046
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- True
- Specific material designation
- optical disk
Subject
- trueBarbados
- trueColonialism
- trueFamilies
- trueFamily sagas
- trueFamily secrets
- Fiction
- trueFreed slaves
- trueHistorical Fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueInheritance and succession
- trueInterracial romance
- trueLiterature
- trueLocal history
- trueNeighbors
- trueParallel narratives
- truePlantation life
- trueRace relations
- trueRegency period (1811-1820) -- 1811 -- 1820
- trueSlave resistance and revolts
- trueSlaves
- trueSugar plantation owners
- trueSugar plantations
- Thriller
- trueVictorian era (1837-1901) -- 1837 -- 1901
- trueWest Indies
- trueWomen plantation owners
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