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Author
Publisher
Summit Books
Pub. Date
c1985
Language
English
Description
After a bizarre accident leaves him with amnesia, a young man, Roddy Greenbank, searches for his past and the meaning of his life and strange destiny, in a story of love, hate, and bitterness set in nineteenth-century Northumberland.
2) The upstart
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A novel of class conflict in 19th century England, featuring a butler who advises a nouveau riche on how to be a gentleman. The upstart is Samuel Fairbrother, owner of a boot factory who buys a mansion, but doesn't know how to dress, eat or receive. To his consternation, his daughter falls in love with the butler. By the author of The Obsession.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A coming-of-age novel featuring a farmer's son in 19th century New England. Daniel Stewart wants to be a doctor, but his father won't pay for studies, spending his money on drink and on making babies with his second wife. When the father dies, Daniel must care for the family, which ends his prospects of studies as well as marriage to his love. By the author of The Lady on My Left.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
An Englishwoman's battle to hang on to her family's bankrupt estate. She is Beatrice, one of four daughters of a gambling landowner who died in debt. By hook or by crook, Beatrice intends to hang on to her patrimony, her schemes including marriage and busting other people's marriage. By the author of The Year of the Virgins.
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