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In Bristol, England, in 1787, a woman married to a man involved in the slave and rum trades falls in love with Mehuru, a priest from the ancient African kingdom of Yoruba. By the author of Wideacre. Reprint.
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Set in England in 1787, Philippa Gregory's dazzling historical novel tells of the forbidden romance between a British aristocrat and an enslaved African nobleman.
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It was to be a respectable marriage to a man engaged in a respectable business. Certainly 34-year-old Frances Scott, forced into genteel poverty despite an aristocratic heritage, has little choice but to wed the lower class Bristol shipping merchant.
Trading her social connections for his protection in the brutally male-dominated world of eighteenth-century England, Frances discovers that her husband's "respectable" trade-- dealing in African slaves-- will propel...
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- PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0006378978
- ISBN 13 9780006378976
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages512
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