The Summer Country The Summer Country

The Summer Country

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Publisher Description

The New York Times bestselling historical novelist 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.

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. 

This audiobook includes an episode of the Book Club Girl Podcast, featuring an interview with Lauren Willig about The Summer Country.

GENRE
Fiction
NARRATOR
NB
Nicola Barber
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
16:48
hr min
RELEASED
2019
June 4
PUBLISHER
HarperAudio
SIZE
780.9
MB

Customer Reviews

SandySwanson ,

When your in the mood for historical fiction

I love when a book can make you feel like you’ve gone back in time and Lauren Willig has transported me back to 1854 Barbados beautifully. Her characters are well developed and I fell in love with Jenny just as much as Charles Davanant. Love, betrayal and a fabulous ending. This book has it all!

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