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Autor Audrey Thomasen Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 feb 2014
In this historical novel based on real events, Letitia Landon and George Maclean marry in June 1838 and sail off to West Africa. Eight weeks later she is dead from what appears to be an overdose of prussic acid. Her doctor and a chemist swear they never prescribed or made up such a solution.
The mystery is never resolved. The ship that brought Letitia's cheerful letters to London was the same one that announced her death. All sorts of rumours fly around. Complicating matters is the presence of Thomas Birch Freeman, a Wesleyan missionary. A letter he writes after Letitia's demise causes trouble for George Maclean. Brodie Cruickshank, in charge of the fort at Anamaboe, a few miles away, also seems to have fallen in love with Letitia.
But what really happened to Letitia in this exotic and dangerous place so far away from her home?
The mystery is never resolved. The ship that brought Letitia's cheerful letters to London was the same one that announced her death. All sorts of rumours fly around. Complicating matters is the presence of Thomas Birch Freeman, a Wesleyan missionary. A letter he writes after Letitia's demise causes trouble for George Maclean. Brodie Cruickshank, in charge of the fort at Anamaboe, a few miles away, also seems to have fallen in love with Letitia.
But what really happened to Letitia in this exotic and dangerous place so far away from her home?
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781459707986
ISBN-10: 1459707982
Pagini: 202
Ilustrații: 1, black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 156 x 217 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Dundurn Group (CA)
ISBN-10: 1459707982
Pagini: 202
Ilustrații: 1, black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 156 x 217 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Dundurn Group (CA)
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Notă biografică
Audrey Thomas has published 17 previous novels and short story collections. Her novels Intertidal Life and Coming Down from Wa were nominated for Governor General's Literary Awards and won B.C.'s Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. In 2003 she won the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award. Audrey lives on Galiano Island, British Columbia.
Recenzii
Praise for Audrey Thomas's writing: "Thomas has a faultless ear for dialogue, for how people sound... And she has a camera eye for physical detail." Margaret Atwood "Audrey Callahan Thomas's specialty is not a region but a gender. She is intensely, assertively feminine... Mrs. Thomas's perceptions... are brilliant." New York Times Book Review "The author's writing is stylistically brilliant." Publishers Weekly "Audrey Thomas is not a romantic, nor is she a narrow satirist of false sophistication. She is a realist and a terrible comedian who exposes her characters in a light like 'the intense glare of the sun against the white walls of the houses'." Jane Rule, The Globe and Mail
Descriere
In this historical novel, Letitia Landon and George Maclean marry in June 1838 and sail off to remote West Africa, arriving just after Letitia's 36th birthday. Eight weeks later Letitia is dead from what appears to be an accidental overdose of prussic acid. But what really happened to Letitia in this exotic place so far away from her home?