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Birdcage walk

Dunmore, Helen, 1952-20172017
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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. 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.
Main title:
Birdcage walk / by Helen Dunmore.
Edition:
Large print edition.
Imprint:
Leicester : Thorpe, Isis, 2017.©2017.
Collation:
395 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Originally published in standard format: London : Hutchinson, 2017.
ISBN:
9781785414701 (paperback)
Language:
English
BRN:
368317
LocationCollectionCall numberStatus/Desc
PenrithLarge Print - FictionDUNMORAvailable
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