Dark tides / Philippa Gregory.
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SoundPublisher number: 12852128 | Simon & Schuster AudioSeries: Gregory, Philippa, Fairmile series ; Publisher: [New York, New York] : Simon & Schuster Audio, [2020]Copyright date: ℗2020Edition: UnabridgedDescription: 14 audio discs (approximately 17 hr., 22 min.) ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - spoken word
- audio
- audio disc
- 9781797111384
- 1797111388
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Audiobook | FICTION GREGORY, PHILIPPA | Available | 33111009907573 |
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#1 New York Times bestselling author of Tidelands --the "searing portrait of a woman that resonates across the ages" ( People )--returns with an evocative historical novel tracking the rise of the Tidelands family in London, Venice, and New England.
Midsummer Eve 1670. Two unexpected visitors arrive at a shabby warehouse on the south side of the River Thames. The first is a wealthy nobleman seeking the lover he deserted twenty-one years earlier. Now James Avery has everything to offer: a fortune, a title, and the favor of the newly restored King Charles II. He believes that the warehouse's poor owner Alinor has the one thing he 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 tells her of the death of Rob--Alinor's son--drowned in the dark tides of the Venice lagoon.
Meanwhile, Alinor's brother Ned, in faraway New England, is making a life for himself between in the narrowing space between the jarring worlds of the English newcomers and the American Indians as they move towards inevitable war. Alinor writes to him that she knows--without doubt--that her son is alive and the widow is an imposter. But how can she prove it?
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.
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Read by Louise Brealey.
Midsummers Eve, 1670. A wealthy man waits outside a poor London warehouse to meet with Alinor, the woman he deserted twenty-one years before. He has everything to offer: wealth, land, status, and he believes she has the only thing he cannot buy: his son and heir. The warehouse is failing, clinging on to poor business in Restoration London. But will Alinor and her family sell out to Sir James? Meanwhile in New England, Alinor's brother Ned, who rebelled against the Crown, cannot find justice in the New World, as the King's revenge stretches across the Atlanic and turns the pioneers against each other and against the native Americans.