The Flight of Sarah Battle - Couverture souple

Nathan, Alix

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 191040960X ISBN 13 : 9781910409602

Editeur : Parthian Books, 2015

Synopsis

Born in her father’s coffee house in Change Alley, London, Sarah Battle is raised in a febrile atmosphere of sedition and intrigue. After witnessing the destruction and chaos of the Gordon Riots, she longs to escape her surroundings for a better life but is trapped in a marriage to James Wintrige, a member of the Corresponding Society but also a government spy.

She meets the radical thinker, printer and bookseller Thomas Cranch who offers her an escape to the New World. Sarah finds solace in her new love and the thriving, democratic world of Philadelphia. But fate may yet deliver her back to London. She has never secured a divorce from her husband and the Change Alley coffee house is still hers.

The Flight of Sarah Battle is set in the turbulent last decade of the eighteenth century in a London where riot constantly rumbles and Bartholomew Fair entertains, and against the promises and excitement of Philadelphia, where new building, hope and a democracy not quite fully realised are shadowed by the terrible threat of fever and war.

-- Publisher: Parthian Books

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Alix Nathan was born in London and educated there and at York University where she read English and Music. She now lives in the Welsh Marches where she owns some ancient woodland. She has published many short stories and her debut collection His Last Fire was published by Parthian in 2014. She has recently completed another novel, Into the Depths. -- Publisher: Parthian Books

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Parthian Books
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 191040960X
• ISBN 13: 9781910409602
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 280
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible