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Title Statement | Birdcage walk / Helen Dunmore. |
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Author | Dunmore, Helen, 1952-2017 |
Publication | New York: Atlantic Monthly Press,2017. |
Edition | First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. |
Extent of Item | 406 pages |
ISBN | 0802127142 9780802127143 |
Other Number | 3207110 |
Summary | It is 1792 and Europe is seized by political turmoil and violence. Lizzy Fawkes has grown up in Radical circles where each step of the French Revolution is followed with eager idealism. But she has recently married John Diner Tredevant, a property developer who is heavily invested in Bristol's housing boom, and he has everything to lose from social upheaval and the prospect of war. Soon his plans for a magnificent terrace built above the 200ft drop of the Gorge come under threat. Diner believes that Lizzie's independent, questioning spirit must be coerced and subdued. She belongs to him: law and custom confirm it, and she must live as he wants. In a tense drama of public and private violence, resistance and terror, Diner's passion for Lizzie darkens until she finds herself dangerously alone. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Married people--Fiction |
Family violence--Fiction | |
Interpersonal relations--Fiction | |
By Location | England--Fiction--Social life and customs--18th century |
Bristol (England)--Fiction--History--18th century | |
By Genre | Domestic fiction |
Historical fiction |