Tidelands is a spellbinding read and an evocative glimpse at our strangely familiar past., A gripping novel.With her usual meticulous attention to detail, the author easily elicits the chaos and dangers of the mid-17th century.This book will leave readers eagerly awaiting the next installment in the series. But how can she prove it? Set in the poverty and glamour of Restoration London, in the golden streets of Venice, and on the tensely contested frontier of early America, this is a novel of greed and desire: for love, for wealth, for a child, and for home.Īs with all good historical fiction, the novel offers that uncanny combination of distancing detail and themes that feel only too close to us today. Alinor writes to him that she knows-without doubt-that her son is alive and the widow is an imposter. Meanwhile, Alinor's brother Ned, in faraway New England, is making a life for himself between in the narrowing space between the jarring worlds of the English newcomers and the American Indians as they move towards inevitable war. She claims Alinor as her mother-in-law and tells her of the death of Rob-Alinor's son-drowned in the dark tides of the Venice lagoon. The second visitor is a beautiful widow from Venice in deepest mourning. He believes that the warehouse's poor owner Alinor has the one thing he cannot buy-his son and heir. Now James Avery has everything to offer: a fortune, a title, and the favor of the newly restored King Charles II.

The first is a wealthy nobleman seeking the lover he deserted twenty-one years earlier. Two unexpected visitors arrive at a shabby warehouse on the south side of the River Thames.

#1 New York Times bestselling author of Tidelands-the 'searing portrait of a woman that resonates across the ages' (People)-returns with an evocative historical novel tracking the rise of the Tidelands family in London, Venice, and New England.Midsummer Eve 1670.

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