The Summer Country: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

THE NEWEST York Times bestselling historical novelist delivers her biggest, boldest, and most ambitious novel yet-a sweeping Victorian epic of lost love, lies, jealousy, and rebellion occur colonial Barbados.

Barbados, 1854: Emily Dawson has always been the poor cousin in a prosperous English product owner clan– merely a vicar’s daughter, and a reform-minded vicar’s little girl, at that. Everyone knows which the family’s lucrative shipping business will go to her cousin, Adam, 1 day. & about The Summer Country: A Book nbsp;But when her grandfather dies, Emily receives an unexpected inheritance: Peverills, a sugar plantation in Barbados-a plantation her grandfather hardly ever told anyone he owned.

When Emily accompanies her cousin and his fresh wife to Barbados, she finds Peverills a burnt-out shell, reduced to ruins in 1816, when a rising of enslaved people sent the isle up in flames. Rumours swirl around the derelict plantation; people whisper of spirits.

Why would her practical-minded grandfather keep her a property in ruins? Why are the neighboring plantation owners, the Davenants, so eager to acquire Peverills? The answer lies in the past- a tangled history of lies, greed, clandestine love, heartbreaking betrayal, and a vivid bid for independence.

An excellent, multigenerational saga in the tradition from the THORN Wild birds and NORTH AND SOUTH, THE SUMMERTIME COUNTRY will beguile visitors with its rendering of families, heartbreak, and the endurance of wish against all odds.