Pengelly's Daughter (Cornish Saga) - Softcover

Pryce, Nicola

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1782398775 ISBN 13: 9781782398776

Publisher: Corvus, 2016

Synopsis

A sweeping debut family saga set in Cornwall in the late 1700s, following Rose Pengelly, a young woman determined to pull herself out of poverty and make her mark on the world. Cornwall, 1793: Rose Pengelly's father has been ruined—he has lost his boat yard and his fortune, plunging Rose and her mother into poverty and debt. There appears to be only one way out of their terrible circumstances; for Rose to marry Mr Tregellas, a powerful timber merchant and the man Rose believes is responsible for her father's downfall. He has made his terms clear; either she marries him or faces homelessness and destitution. Desperate, Rose sets out to find evidence of Mr Tregellas's wrongdoing. In her search, she encounters a mysterious young sailor called Jim, who refuses to disclose his identity. Even as she falls in love with him, she questions who he really is. He may help her restore her fortune and her good name, but does he ever tell her the truth?

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From the Author

Cornwall: 1793.  It is a year of turmoil: England is at war with France. Mr Pitt's government is frightened that radicals and dissenters will join forces with the Jacobins to encourage riot. It is not the time to be at odds with those in authority and not the time to be a woman faced with an unenviable decision. Yet, Rosehannon Pengelly has just three weeks to make her choice.
Fosse and Porthruan cling to inhospitable rocks on opposing sides of the river. The river is deep, the harbours sheltered, the small, terraced cottages rising steeply from the quayside. Boats tie three abreast against the bustling town quay while huge ships lie at anchor, waiting to catch the tide.
It is not a place to be alone at night. The taverns spill over; sailors spoiling for a fight. The press gang are watching, the dark, twisting alleys anything but safe. It is no place for a woman, no matter if she's dressed in men's clothes.
Brought up as the only child of a dissident boat builder, Rosehannon Pengelly has learnt to question the society within which she lives. Her father has installed in her a sense of injustice, the voting system needs to be addressed; rotten boroughs are rife, bribery and corruption, the norm. But where did it get him? His once prosperous boatyard now boasts another's name. Bankruptcy and ruin leave Rose and her mother among the most vulnerable in the town.
An advantageous marriage would change their circumstances, but to marry a man you believe to be behind your father's bankruptcy? Rose has no-one to turn to and no-one to trust - certainly not the dark sailor she stumbles upon in the moonlight.

About the Author

Nicola Pryce trained as a nurse at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London. She has always loved literature and completed an Open University degree in Humanities whilst working as a chemotherapy nurse in Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton. She is a qualified adult literacy support volunteer and lives with her husband in the Blackdown Hills in Somerset. She and her husband love sailing and together they sail the south coast of Cornwall in search of adventure.
She is a qualified adult literacy support volunteer.

About this edition

• Publisher: Corvus
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1782398775
• ISBN 13: 9781782398776
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448