![]() ![]() ![]() 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. 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. ![]() 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. ![]() Everyone knows that the family’s lucrative shipping business will go to her cousin, Adam, one day. You’ll love Willig’s books if you love historical fiction! The Summer Countryīarbados, 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. So I went to the talk, read the book, and am now lookign forward to her new book, The Summer Country. I discovered author Lauren Willig when her book The English Wife was selected as a Book of the Month Club pick and then she came to speak at the Yale Bookstore. ![]()
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