Ancestral Virgins: Part One - Couverture souple

Mackintosh, Fiona J

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798993482309

Editeur : Midatlantic Press, 2026

Synopsis

"There was a pain in her chest, a numbness she could feel all down her left side to her fingertips. Behind the closed doors of the bedrooms, there were muffled voices, people dressing on a summer's evening, looking forward to nothing more than a good dinner, nothing that would rip their lives into two halves like a long, jagged seam."

Set just before the First World War in London and Nottinghamshire, Ancestral Virgins (Part One) is Downton Abbey with a harder edge and a more shocking secret. Lady Celia Mapperley, young, innocent, and unmarried, is emerging from her protected childhood into a world that seems to have no place for her. Her mother is pushing her to marry the rich industrialist George Ingham, but Celia is reluctant. Though she's heard nothing but hints and whispers, she's both intrigued and repulsed by the mystery of what happens in the dark between a bride and her husband. Feeling ill at ease in every situation, from London's society balls to its suffrage meetings, she despairs of ever finding what will make her truly happy. When a new and wholly unexpected lover comes along, Celia learns the devastating power of desire and is thrust into a scandal so damning it could cost her everything she's ever known.

Ancestral Virgins will appeal to fans of Sarah Waters and Kate Atkinson and to anyone enthralled by period dramas in film and television.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Fiona J. Mackintosh is a Scottish-American author whose fiction draws from both sides of the Atlantic. Her flash fiction collection, The Yet Unknowing World, was published by Ad Hoc Fiction in 2021, and her debut novel Ancestral Virgins will be published in 2026. Her flashes have been selected for Best Small Fictions in 2023 and 2019, and her short stories have been finalists for the Cairde Word, Colm Toíbín, Bristol, Galley Beggar, Exeter, and Fish Short Story Prizes. She is a proud recipient of an Individual Artist's Award from the Maryland State Arts Council. www.fionajmackintosh.com

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Midatlantic Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798993482309
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 182
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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