A Thread Of Gold

Cannam, Helen

ISBN 10: 0722123604 / ISBN 13: 9780722123607

Published by Sphere, London, 1989

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675 pages. 370 grams. This book is in good condition marked only by old pricing, in pencil, on first page. 'In 1865, when beautiful Laure Fremont marries Philippe Beynac, she believes the course of their love will flow as smoothly as the golden wine at their chateau in the Dordogne. But beneath the gaiety and splendour, a terrible blight is threatening their cherished vineyard. And then, with the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War, Laure finds she is losing everything she holds most dear. So begins one woman's struggle for both herself and her child's survival in an alien world, and a fight to restore the estates which are her heritage. She faces agonising choices, and conflicting demands: Henri Seguier, the rich neighbour who offers her a love which she can never return; Jean-Claude, the romantic painter, who loves with a passion that will haunt Laure forever; and the solemn, kindly Charles De Miremont, whom she realises she can use for her own desperate ends. And even when the dark clouds of war again intrude and the threads of Laure's life are once more pulled apart, her spirit will never be broken.' 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Romance; ISBN: 0722123604. ISBN/EAN: 9780722123607. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 001573.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Thread Of Gold
• Publisher: Sphere, London
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0722123604
• ISBN 13: 9780722123607
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition: First Thus.
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Romance

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Synopsis

'A good long read which takes us from the 1870s to the end of the First World War...' Meg Bradley, Aberdeen Evening Express 1989'A thoroughly entertaining romance.' Daily Post 1989For Laure Frémont it is the end of a fairy story, the moment of 'happy ever after'. In the summer of 1866 she has married the man of her dreams, Philippe Naillac, owner of the Château de Casseuil with its famous vineyards. Soon, she is as passionate about the vineyard as he is. A lifetime of unbroken happiness lies before them - or so she believes.But there is to be no 'happy ever after'. All too soon the clouds gather over her new life. There is Philippe's redoubtable mother, who clearly has no intention of relinquishing control over the household to her daughter-in-law. There is the new disease from America that threatens the vineyards of France, and Casseuil's in particular. And there are the looming financial difficulties that Laure does not see until - too late - a night of horror forces them on her consciousness.Plunged into grief and heartache, she finds herself struggling alone to ensure the survival of the place she has come to love, along with her own survival and that of her daughter, Mathilde. Faced with poverty, isolation and the hostility of a male-dominated world, Laure sets out with ruthlessness and skill to restore the vineyard to its former greatness, at terrible cost to her own hopes of happiness. She - and Casseuil - survive war, rebellion and social unrest, until a devastating global conflict in a new century threatens to destroy for ever all that she has worked for.