Accidents of Providence

ISBN-13: 9780547840116 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 272 str.

Stacia Brown

Opis

-Wonderfully detailed and keenly researched, it is a moving portrait of a courageous woman caught between a disastrous affair with a charismatic revolutionary and the draconian laws of the land that would put her to death because of it.---Kathleen Kent
-Dangerous Liaisons: A seventeenth-century heroine for our times . . . A] delightfully seditious heroine...Proof that a historical novel can be educational and entertaining, and nothing like homework.---O, The Oprah Magazine London, 1649: King Charles has been beheaded for treason, Cromwell is in power, the Levelers are demanding rights for the people, and a new law targeting unwed mothers presumes anyone who conceals the death of her illegitimate child is guilty of murder.
Glovemaker Rachel Lockyer is locked in a secret affair. But while her lover is imprisoned in the Tower, a child is found buried in the woods. Rachel is arrested. So comes an investigation, a trial, and an extraordinary cast of characters all brought to reckon for this one life. Spinning within is a remarkable love story and evidence that miracles come to even the commonest lives. -The best kind of historical fiction--a combination of love story and murder mystery, with a sprinkling of intriguing historical snippets and wonderful writing.---Library Journal, starred review
- A] marvelous story written in searing prose. Don't miss it ---Sheri Holman
-Heart-poundingly vivid and] intellectually provocative . . . A romping good read . . . Historical fiction at its best.---Kirkus Reviews, starred review