Ravenscraig - Couverture souple

Altner, Sandi Krawchenko

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0988224917 ISBN 13 : 9780988224919

Editeur : Franklin & Gallagher, LLC, 2012

Synopsis

Brilliant and charismatic, Rupert Willows is among the best of liars. Not even his wife knows his true identity.

Overnight fortunes are being made in1890s Winnipeg and Rupert wants his share of the action. Known as the Chicago of the North for its grand theatres and elegant architecture, Winnipeg is also a raucous, bawdy boomtown with a taste for fast money, loose women, and dirty politics.

Rupert boldly schemes his way into the ranks of the elite class of men who run the city when he beats out the competition to buy the mansion, Ravenscraig Hall. True power and vast riches can be his, as long as his secret stays buried.

Across town, Zev Zigman mounts a desperate struggle to bring his family out of tsarist Russia to settle in the overcrowded squalor of Winnipeg’s North End. His young niece, a plucky orphan, arrives from London and risks everything when she hides her Jewish roots to enter the world of “The English” as Maisie, the new maid at Ravenscraig.

Scandal, romance, and the Titanic tragedy will determine the fates of both families as their lives become entwined in this historical romance and family saga.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Romance, scandal, and tragedy grip the lives of two families and threaten to destroy them both in Ravenscraig, by Sandi Krawchenko Altner. Winner of the 2012 Carol Shields Book Award, Ravenscraig, pitches rich against poor in the height of the immigration boom a century ago. Rupert Willows buries his cruel past and schemes his way to wealth and power when he buys his opulent home, Ravenscraig Hall. Zev Zigman, a devout Jew, mounts a desperate struggle to bring his family out of czarist Russia. At the center is the feisty Maisie, who hides her Jewish roots to enter the world of “The English” as a well-paid maid at Ravenscraig. Love, anger and determination fuel the treacherous journey ahead.

Biographie de l'auteur

Sandi Krawchenko Altner enjoyed an award-winning career in television and radio news in Winnipeg, Calgary, and Montreal before she chose to follow her passion for writing fiction. A Jew by choice, Sandi celebrated conversion in 2005. She and her husband have two daughters and two happy dogs. Sandi lives, writes, and blogs in Florida.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Franklin & Gallagher, LLC
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0988224917
• ISBN 13: 9780988224919
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 3
• Nombre de pages: 530
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