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The happiness of the Byford sisters, both married and raising families, is threatened when the secret of their illegitimate neice--daughter of their brother and a former servant--is revealed
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The Byford family was introduced in Paths of Fortune , which followed the growing up of Kate and Sophy, and their feckless younger brother, in rural Regency England. Now it is 1812; Kate has married a wealthy American and lives in Virginia; Sophy, wife of James Fraser, a neophyte inventor working on the prototype of the steamship, leaves her young son in England to join her husband in New York. The Napoleonic war results in the blockade of the port of New York, putting Sophy in financial and physical peril. Meanwhile, Charity Michaelmas, a former servant now rising in the demimonde as a wealthy prostitute, seeks to protect her daughter, the unacknowledged offspring of the Byfords' brother. The many strands in this carefully told, at times slow-paced story create a vivid pattern unified in the final chapters, when a predictable romance comes to fruition for the next generation.
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This overlong saga is indeed "a world too wide" and a disappointing sequel to Paths of Fortune (LJ 8/85). Beginning in 1812, it loosely covers about 20 years in the lives of Sophy and James Fraser in England and Sophy's sister Kate and husband, Joseph Lee, in America. It also follows Georgiana Michaelmas, the illegitimate daughter of Katy and Sophy's brother and a former servant, now a well-to-do prostitute. In between are tucked snippets of the Napoleonic wars, a shipbuilding venture turned bad, postwar America, much dashing from continent to continent, and characters who strut and fret for a moment on the page only to disappear. A love interest holds momentary attention, but it comes after so much uneven meandering that most readers won't persevere. Perhaps for large collections owning the earlier volume.
- Joan Hinkemeyer, Englewood P.L., Col.
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- Joan Hinkemeyer, Englewood P.L., Col.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherSt Martins Pr
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0312034547
- ISBN 13 9780312034542
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages301
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