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Complete Wideacre Trilogy eBook

Wideacre, The Favoured Child, Meridon

by Philippa Gregory
language: english
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, February of 2014 ‧
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From the author of THE WHITE QUEEN and THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL, discover Philippa Gregory’s sweeping and passionate epic, The Wideacre TrilogyWIDEACRE is Philippa Gregory’s first novel, a tale of passion and intrigue set in the eighteenth century. Wideacre Hall, set in the heart of the English countryside, is the ancestral home that Beatrice Lacey loves. But as a woman of the eighteenth century she has no right of inheritance. Corrupted by a world that mistreats women, she sets out to corrupt others. No-one escapes the consequences of her need to possess the land…In THE FAVOURED CHILD, the Wideacre estate is bankrupt, the villagers are living in poverty and Wideacre Hall is a smoke-blackened ruin. But in the Dower House two children are being raised in protected innocence. Equal claimants to the inheritance of Wideacre, rivals for the love of the village, only one can be the favoured child. Only one can be Beatrice Lacey’s true heir.MERIDON is a desolate Romany girl, determined to escape the hard poverty of her childhood. Riding bareback in a travelling show, while her sister Dandy risks her life on the trapeze, Meridon dedicates herself to freeing them both from danger and want. But Dandy, beautiful, impatient and thieving, grabs too much, too quickly. And Meridon finds herself alone, riding in bitter grief through the rich Sussex farmlands towards a house called Wideacre - which awaits the return of the last of the Laceys.

Complete Wideacre Trilogy

Wideacre, The Favoured Child, Meridon

by Philippa Gregory

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ISBN: 9780007536276
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Release Date: February of 2014
Language: English
Format: eBook
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Philippa Gregory

Nascida no Quénia a 9 de janeiro de 1954, esta famosa escritora de romances históricos, mudou-se para Bristol, Inglaterra, quando tinha dois anos. Formada em História pela Universidade de Sussex e doutorada em Literatura do Século XVIII pela Universidade de Edimburgo. Além de escritora de romances, também escreve críticas para jornais britânicos e revistas. É também conhecida pelos programas de rádio e televisão. Philippa vive com a família – o marido, dois filhos e enteados – numa quinta do Yorkshire, onde cria cavalos, galinhas e patos. Gosta de jardinagem, equitação e caminhadas. Também é ativa em projetos de caridade e fundou o Gardens for the Gambia. O seu período preferido da História é a Era Tudor, sobre o qual já escreveu vários romances, alguns adaptados para televisão e cinema. Philippa Gregory também tem vários livros infantis publicados, além de romances com histórias modernas.

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