Advanced Readers Copy in acceptable condition. Some wear to cover. Clean reading copy.
“Then let us be among those who hope that the future will be less cruel than the past.”
Growing up on idyllic St. Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris. Rachel’s mother, a pillar of their small refugee community of Jews who escaped the Inquisition, has never forgiven her daughter for being a difficult girl who refuses to live by the rules. Growing up, Rachel’s salvation is their maid Adelle’s belief in her strengths, and her deep, life-long friendship with Jestine, Adelle’s daughter. But Rachel’s life is not her own. She is married off to a widower with three children to save her father’s business. When her husband dies suddenly and his handsome, much younger nephew, Fréderick, arrives from France to settle the estate, Rachel seizes her own life story, beginning a defiant, passionate love affair that sparks a scandal that affects her family, including her favorite son, who will become one of the greatest artists of France.
Once forgotten to history, the marriage of Rachel and Fréderick is a story that is as unforgettable as it is remarkable.
Read Alikes for The Marriage of Opposities: The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman; Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell; Inés of My Soul by Isabel Allende; Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
Advanced Readers Copy in acceptable condition. Some wear to cover. Clean reading copy.
“Then let us be among those who hope that the future will be less cruel than the past.”
Growing up on idyllic St. Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris. Rachel’s mother, a pillar of their small refugee community of Jews who escaped the Inquisition, has never forgiven her daughter for being a difficult girl who refuses to live by the rules. Growing up, Rachel’s salvation is their maid Adelle’s belief in her strengths, and her deep, life-long friendship with Jestine, Adelle’s daughter. But Rachel’s life is not her own. She is married off to a widower with three children to save her father’s business. When her husband dies suddenly and his handsome, much younger nephew, Fréderick, arrives from France to settle the estate, Rachel seizes her own life story, beginning a defiant, passionate love affair that sparks a scandal that affects her family, including her favorite son, who will become one of the greatest artists of France.
Once forgotten to history, the marriage of Rachel and Fréderick is a story that is as unforgettable as it is remarkable.
Read Alikes for The Marriage of Opposities: The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman; Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell; Inés of My Soul by Isabel Allende; Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
ISBN 978-1-5011-1475-5
Alice Hoffman
2015
