"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 Network A 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.
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