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WideacreSéries

Cette saga plonge au cœur de la campagne anglaise, suivant une femme déterminée du XVIIIe siècle qui défie les normes sociétales pour revendiquer son domaine ancestral. Poussée par la passion et l'ambition, elle recherche le contrôle absolu sur la terre qu'elle chérit, quel qu'en soit le prix. La série explore les thèmes de l'obsession, de l'héritage et des sombres conséquences du pouvoir. Elle tisse avec brio une histoire de secrets de famille et de la lutte acharnée d'une femme contre les conventions.

Meridon
The favoured child
Wideacre

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  1. 1

    Wideacre

    • 648pages
    • 23 heures de lecture
    3,4(23060)Évaluer

    Beatrice Lacey, daughter of Wideacre Hall, will not accept society’s rules that women cannot inherit…The internationally bestselling debut from the author of The Other Boleyn Girl and Three Sisters, Three Queens . Wideacre Hall, set in the heart of the English countryside, is the ancestral home that Beatrice Lacey loves. Built from yellow stone, facing due south and surrounded by the rich woodlands and rolling downs of Sussex, it has been in her family for generations. But as a woman in England in the 1770s she has no right of inheritance; only a loveless arranged marriage lies ahead. Beautiful, sensual and passionate, Beatrice sets out to pursue her own control over Wideacre – at any cost. Yet even as her scheming succeeds, Beatrice is haunted by the one person alive who fully understands her obsession and knows her capacity to let nothing – and no-one – stand in her way. The 30th anniversary edition, with new foreword by the author.

    Wideacre
  2. 2

    The favoured child

    • 540pages
    • 19 heures de lecture
    3,7(11235)Évaluer

    A sequel to the bestselling "Wideacre", this thriller features the Lacey family who, now that Wideacre Hall is a derelict, burned-out shell, live an austere life in an adjacent house where Julia and sadistic Richard, Beatrice's incestuous children are brought up by their aunt.

    The favoured child
  3. 3

    Meridon

    • 576pages
    • 21 heures de lecture
    3,7(10475)Évaluer

    The third volume in the Wideacre trilogy, this story features Meridon, a desolate Romany girl, who is determined to escape the hard poverty of her childhood. Riding bareback in a travelling show, while her sister, Dandy, risks her life on the trapeze, Meridon dedicates herself to freeing them both from danger and want.

    Meridon