The Resource The summer country : a novel, Lauren Willig
The summer country : a novel, Lauren Willig
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Resource Information
The item The summer country : a novel, Lauren Willig represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 8 library branches.
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- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Extent
- 464 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062839022
- Label
- The summer country : a novel
- Title
- The summer country
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Lauren Willig
- Subject
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- Inheritance and succession -- Fiction
- truePlantation life
- trueRace relations
- trueSlave resistance and revolts
- Slaves
- trueSugar plantation owners
- trueSugar plantations
- Sugar plantations -- Fiction
- trueWest Indies
- trueWomen plantation owners
- trueBarbados
- Barbados -- Fiction
- trueColonialism
- trueEnslaved people
- trueEnslaved people's resistance and revolts
- FICTION / Thrillers / Historical
- FICTION / Women
- trueFamilies
- trueFamily secrets
- Family secrets -- Fiction
- trueFreed people
- trueFreed slaves
- Haunted places -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- trueInheritance and succession
- trueInterracial romance
- JUV016000, FICTION / Historical / General
- trueLocal history
- trueNeighbors
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10781524
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Willig, Lauren
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Haunted places
- Inheritance and succession
- Sugar plantations
- Family secrets
- Barbados
- FICTION / Historical / General
- FICTION / Thrillers / Historical
- FICTION / Women
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The summer country : a novel, Lauren Willig
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1049794795
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Extent
- 464 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062839022
- Lccn
- 2018044474
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1049794795
- Label
- The summer country : a novel, Lauren Willig
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1049794795
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Extent
- 464 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062839022
- Lccn
- 2018044474
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1049794795
Subject
- Inheritance and succession -- Fiction
- truePlantation life
- trueRace relations
- trueSlave resistance and revolts
- Slaves
- trueSugar plantation owners
- trueSugar plantations
- Sugar plantations -- Fiction
- trueWest Indies
- trueWomen plantation owners
- trueBarbados
- Barbados -- Fiction
- trueColonialism
- trueEnslaved people
- trueEnslaved people's resistance and revolts
- FICTION / Thrillers / Historical
- FICTION / Women
- trueFamilies
- trueFamily secrets
- Family secrets -- Fiction
- trueFreed people
- trueFreed slaves
- Haunted places -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- trueInheritance and succession
- trueInterracial romance
- JUV016000, FICTION / Historical / General
- trueLocal history
- trueNeighbors
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