Precious Bane
'Brighter and better than Thomas Hardy . . . a marvellous writer' Eloise Millar, GuardianA haunting tale of passion set in Shropshire in the 1800s.Born at the time of Waterloo in the rolling Shropshire countryside, Prudence Sarn is a wild, passionate girl, cursed and feared by her superstitious neighbours because of her facial disfigurement - her 'precious bane'. Unlike her ambitious brother, Gideon, determined to become rich and out of harmony with the natural world, Prue loves the remote countryside of her birth. She also adores, hopelessly, the weaver Kester Woodseaves. But when a mob sets upon Prue, falsely believing her guilty of murder,…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-349-01564-4
- EAN: 9780349015644
- Produktnummer: 35618304
- Verlag: Little, Brown and Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
- Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.6 cm
- Reihenbandnummer: 405
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Mary Webb (1881-1927), poet, mystic and lover of nature, spent most of her life in Shropshire, which features in all of her novels. Admiring contemporaries described Webb as a 'strange genius' and 'one of the best living writers'. After a life of illness and near-poverty, Mary Webb died in Hampstead.
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