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Dark tides: Philippa Gregory ; read by Louise Brealey.

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Record Number 842365
ISBN 9781760851910
Author Gregory, Philippa
Title Dark tides [electronic resource] / Philippa Gregory ; read by Louise Brealey.
Publisher/Date [Sydney, N.S.W.] : Simon & Schuster Australia, 2020.
Series Fairmile 2.
Contents note Downloadable eAudiobook.
Fiction.
Duration: 17:22:00.
Performer note Read by Louise Brealey.
Summary Note Midsummer Eve 1670. Two unexpected visitors arrive at a shabby warehouse on the south side of the River Thames. The first is a wealthy man hoping to find the lover he deserted twenty-one years before. James Avery has everything to offer, including the favour of the newly restored King Charles II, and he believes that the warehouse's poor owner Alinor has the one thing his money cannot buy-his son and heir. The second visitor is a beautiful widow from Venice in deepest mourning. She claims Alinor as her mother-in-law and has come to tell Alinor that her son Rob has drowned in the dark tides of the Venice lagoon. Alinor writes to her brother Ned, newly arrived in faraway New England and trying to make a life between the worlds of the English newcomers and the American Indians as they move toward inevitable war. Alinor tells him that she knows-without doubt-that her son is alive and the widow is an imposter. Set in the poverty and glamour of Restoration London, in the golden streets of Venice, and on the tensely contested frontier of early America, this is a novel of greed and desire: for love, for wealth, for a child, and for home.
Target audience note Adult.
Subject Legacies -- Fiction
Families -- Fiction
Impostors and imposture -- Fiction
Inheritance and succession -- Fiction
Success -- Fiction
Kings and rulers -- Fiction
Widows -- Fiction
Daughters -- Fiction
London (England) -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction
Venice (Italy) -- History -- 1508-1797 -- Fiction
New England -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction
Great Britain -- History -- Charles II, 1660-1685 -- Fiction
Audiobooks.
Added Author Brealey, Louise
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