Lisbon - Softcover

Sherwood, Valerie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451402200 ISBN 13: 9780451402202

Publisher: Onyx, 1990

Synopsis

The saga of Charlotte Vayle--who has been hidden away in Lisbon and assumed dead by her daughters Cassandra and Phoebe--unfolds over several generations

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

As this sprawling, frothy romance set in 18th-century England and Portugal opens, orphaned 15-year-old Charlotte Vayle falls in love with dashing young adventurer Tom Westig. It is the day when "she first realized what it could be like between a man and a woman." When Charlotte learns that her profligate uncle plans to pay his debts by marrying her off to foppish Lord Pimmerston, she and Westig make a dash for Scotland (where they can be legally wed), but are intercepted by her uncle's men, who throw Tom off a cliff, presumably to his death. Charlotte is then tricked into marriage with the violent, mysterious but sexually charismatic Rowan Keynes and bears him two daughters, the elder closely resembling Tom Westig. Charlotte and Tom meet again in Lisbon but are found out by Keynes; Charlotte is abandoned and Tom, presumably, put to death again. After following the lives of Charlotte's daughters in England, the narrative brings the entire cast to Lisbon for the denouement. This first hardcover offering from the bestselling paperback novelist ( This Loving Torment ) is fast-paced, despite its predictable fairy-tale plot.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Onyx
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0451402200
• ISBN 13: 9780451402202
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 535