Elopement
A Powerful, Uplifting Tale of Forbidden Love
Yazar: Rees, Tracy
Yıl: 2022
Dil: Englisch
Kapsam: 432 S.
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- Tracy Rees's The Elopement is an elaborately imagined historical romance, full of delight and temptation, spanning the luxury and poverty of late Victorian England.'A beautiful book. Powerful and captivating, the story will transport you to another time and place, plunging you headlong into the lives of its characters' - Hazel Prior, author of Away with the PenguinsA wealthy heiress . . .1897. Rowena Blythe is wealthy, entitled and beautiful. As her twenty-fourth birthday approaches, she's expected to marry - and to marry well.An unsuitable match . . .Her parents commission a portrait of Rowena to help cement her reputation as a great society beauty. However, Bartek, the artist's young assistant, is unlike any man Rowena has met before - wild, romantic and Bohemian. While society at large awaits the announcement of Rowena's engagement, it is Bartek who captures Rowena's heart along with her likeness.A scandal in society . . .Rowena knows her parents would never approve of Bartek, who in their eyes is nothing but a penniless foreigner. As her feelings grow, she has no-one to turn to. Dare she risk everything for love?Praise for Tracy Rees:'a natural storyteller . . .' - Rachel Hore, author of One Moonlit Night'Tracy has a rare gift for creating characters you are rooting for from the first page' - Gill Paul, author of The Manhattan Girls'Has such a talent for writing engaging characters who stay with you' - Hazel Gaynor, author of The Girl Who Came Home'Tracy Rees is at the height of her game' - Rebecca Griffiths, author of The Girl at My Door
Tracy Rees, author of Amy Snow, was the first winner of the Richard and Judy ‘Search for a Bestseller’ competition. She has also won the Love Stories Best Historical Read award and been shortlisted for the RNA Epic Romantic Novel of the Year. A Cambridge graduate, Tracy had a successful career in non-fiction publishing before retraining for a second career practising and teaching humanistic counselling. She has also been a waitress, bartender, shop assistant, estate agent, classroom assistant and workshop leader. Tracy divides her time between the Gower Peninsula of South Wales and London.
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Yayın adı: Elopement
Yazar: Rees, Tracy
Yayınevi: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781529098648
Kategori: Edebiyat ve eğlence, Roman ve anlatılar, Tarihi konular
Dosya büyüklüğü: 819 KB
Biçim: ePub
Ödünç alma süresi: 21 Gün