Grigson, R: GOVERNORS LOVER

Roderic Grigson

ISBN 10: 0648419088 / ISBN 13: 9780648419082

Published by Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp, 2022

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Neuware - Life was difficult for Lovinia as the half-Sinhalese, half-Portuguese lead dancer in her father's dance troupe. But when she catches the eye of the newly arrived Governor of the Crown Colony of Ceylon, her fortunes change dramatically.The autocratic Governor, smitten by Lovinia's obvious charms but wary of the disapprovals of a narrow-minded British society, builds a stately country mansion on a promontory overlooking the sea close to the village of Galkissa, just a few miles south of Colombo, where she lives. An underground tunnel from the mansion's cellar allows Lovinia to visit him regularly to conduct their affair secretly. Life on the island is colourful and exotic, but an undercurrent of violence beneath the bright façade brings excitement and danger to her life. Lovinia is caught up in a treacherous mission and is torn between two very different lives. Will she follow her head or her heart Set in 1805, during the early stages of British Colonial rule in Ceylon when the middle Kingdom of Kandy was at war with the British Empire, the true love story between the Governor, Major General Sir Thomas Maitland, and mestizo dancer Lovinia Aponsuwa has endured and enchanted people of all ages over the past two hundred years.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Grigson, R: GOVERNORS LOVER
• Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0648419088
• ISBN 13: 9780648419082
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 19D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 19 millimeters depth
• Weight: 481 grams

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Synopsis

Life was difficult for Lovinia as the half-Sinhalese, half-Portuguese lead dancer in her father's dance troupe. But when she catches the eye of the newly arrived Governor of the Crown Colony of Ceylon, her fortunes change dramatically.
The autocratic Governor, smitten by Lovinia’s obvious charms but wary of the disapprovals of a narrow-minded British society, builds a stately country mansion on a promontory overlooking the sea close to the village of Galkissa, just a few miles south of Colombo, where she lives. An underground tunnel from the mansion's cellar allows Lovinia to visit him regularly to conduct their affair secretly.
Life on the island is colourful and exotic, but an undercurrent of violence beneath the bright façade brings excitement and danger to her life. Lovinia is caught up in a treacherous mission and is torn between two very different lives. Will she follow her head or her heart?
Set in 1805, during the early stages of British Colonial rule in Ceylon when the middle Kingdom of Kandy was at war with the British Empire, the true love story between the Governor, Major General Sir Thomas Maitland, and mestizo dancer Lovinia Aponsuwa has endured and enchanted people of all ages over the past two hundred years.