Plague Child - Softcover

Ransley, Peter

 
9780007312375: Plague Child
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0007312377 ISBN 13: 9780007312375
Verlag: William Collins, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

The first instalment of a captivating trilogy set against the backdrop of the English Civil War.

September 1625: Plague cart driver, Matthew Kneave, is sent to pick up the corpse of a baby. Yet, on the way to the plague pit, he hears a cry – the baby is alive. A plague child himself, and now immune from the disease, Matthew decides to raise it as his own.

Fifteen years on, Matthew’s son Tom is apprenticed to a printer in the City. Somebody is interested in him and is keen to turn him into a gentleman. He is even given an education. But Tom is unaware that he has a benefactor and soon he discovers that someone else is determined to kill him.

The civil war divides families, yet Tom is divided in himself. Devil or saint? Royalist or radicalist? He is at the bottom of the social ladder, yet soon finds himself within reach of a great estate – one which he must give up to be with the girl he loves.

Set against the fervent political climate of the period, 'Plague Child' is a remarkable story of discovery, identity and an England of the past.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Peter Ransley has written extensively for television. His BBC adaptation of Sarah Waters’s ‘Fingersmith’ was nominated for a BAFTA for best series in 2006 and his ITV drama ‘Falling Angel’, starring Emilia Fox and Charles Dance, was screened in 2007. He is a winner of the Royal Television Society’s Writer’s Award. His first novel in the trilogy, PLAGUE CHILD, published in 2011.

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Verlag
William Collins
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0007312377
ISBN 13 
9780007312375
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
448
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