Birdcage Walk / Helen Dunmore.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2017Edition: First Grove Atlantic hardcover editionDescription: 406 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780802127143 (hardcover)
- 0802127142 (hardcover)
- 823/.914Â 23
- PR6054.U528Â B57 2017
Item type | Current library | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Iola Public Library Adult Fiction | Iola Public Library | Adult Books | F Dunmore, Helen (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34311002686526 |
It is 1792 and Europe is seized by political turmoil and violence. Lizzie 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 two-hundred-foot drop of the Gorge come under threat. Tormented and striving 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--his passion for Lizzie darkening until she finds herself dangerously alone. Weaving a deeply personal and moving story with a historical moment of critical and complex importance, Birdcage Walk is an unsettling and brilliantly tense drama of public and private violence, resistance and terror from one of our greatest storytellers.
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