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Touchstone, June 2003
Trade Paperback, 624 pages
ISBN-10: 0743249305
ISBN-13: 9780743249300
Description
The Wideacre estate is bankrupt. The villagers are living in poverty and Wideacre Hall is a smoke-blackened ruin. But, in the Dower House, two children are being raised in protected innocence.
Equal claimants to the estate, rivals for the love of the village, they are tied by a secret childhood betrothal but forbidden to marry. Only one can be the favored child. Only one can inherit the magical understanding between the land and the Lacey family that can make the Sussex village grow green again. Only one can be Beatrice Lacey's true heir.
Sensual, gripping, sometimes mystical, The Favored Child sweeps the reader irresistibly into the eighteenth century, a revolutionary period in English history. This rich and dramatic novel continues the saga of the Lacey family started in Philippa Gregory's bestselling and enduringly popular Wideacre.
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Val Hennessy
London Daily Mail
When it comes to writers of historical fiction, Philippa Gregory is in the very top league.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
For lovers of richly textured historical novels, The Favored Child is absorbing and satisfying.
Daily Express (U.K.)
Subtle and exciting.
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