A compelling and powerful story of political intrigue and personal ambition, set between the palaces of London, the tidelands of Foulmire and the shores of Barbados. Suddenly, Alinor is lady of the manor, as Ned marches into the last battle between the royalists and commoners, hoping for a new dawn for freedom. Recklessly, Livia drags her son Matthew and his foster mothers Alinor and Alys into a plot to save the queen from Monmouth’s invasion, and Matthew is rewarded with the Manor of Foulmire: on the tidelands where Ned, Alinor and Alys had once scraped a poor living. Meanwhile, Queen Mary summons her friend Livia to a terrified court. As Ned swears loyalty to the charismatic Duke of Monmouth, he discovers a new and unexpected love. Ned Ferryman, inspired by news of a rebellion against the Stuart kings, returns from America with his Pokanoket servant to join the uprising against roman catholic, King James. In a divided country, power and loyalty conquer all.
It will be out in paperback on 8 June (USA/Canada) and 10 June (UK/Australia/New Zealand/India) 2021.The new historical novel from Philippa Gregory, the Number One bestselling author of Tidelands and Dark Tides.
But something in Livia’s story doesn’t add up and the answers lies across the dark tides in Venice…ĭark Tides was released on 24 November, 2020. She enchants the warehouse family with her sensual carefree warmth, and promises of a new profitable trade selling beautiful statues of marble and bronze to fuel the classical craze among the wealthy landowners. Then, a beautiful widow, Livia, arrives from Venice, telling Alinor that her son Rob has drowned and that she needs their help. Meanwhile in New England, Alinor’s brother Ned cannot find justice in the New World, as the king’s revenge stretches across the Atlantic and turns the pioneers against each other and against the American Indians. He has everything to offer: money, land, status – and he believes she has the only thing he cannot buy: his son and heir. A wealthy man waits outside a poor London warehouse to meet with Alinor, the woman he failed twenty-one years before.
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