Research Catalog

Title

Dark tides : a novel / Philippa Gregory.

Author

Gregory, Philippa

Publication

• New York : Atria Books, 2020.
• ©2020

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Details

Description

452 pages : map; 24 cm.

Summary

• "#1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory's new historical novel tracks the rise of the Tidelands family in London, Venice, and New England. Midsummer Eve 1670. Two unexpected visitors arrive at a shabby warehouse on the south side of the River Thames. The first is a wealthy man hoping to find the lover he deserted twenty-one years before. James Avery has everything to offer, including the favour of the newly restored King Charles II, and he believes that the warehouse's poor owner Alinor has the one thing his money cannot buy-his son and heir. The second visitor is a beautiful widow from Venice in deepest mourning. She claims Alinor as her mother-in-law and has come to tell Alinor that her son Rob has drowned in the dark tides of the Venice lagoon. Alinor writes to her brother Ned, newly arrived in faraway New England and trying to make a life between the worlds of the English newcomers and the American Indians as they move toward inevitable war. Alinor tells him that she knows-without doubt-that her son is alive and the widow is an imposter. Set in the poverty and glamour of Restoration London, in the golden streets of Venice, and on the tensely contested frontier of early America, this is a novel of greed and desire: for love, for wealth, for a child, and for home"--
• Midsummer Eve, 1670. Two people arrive at a shabby warehouse on the south side of the River Thames. James Avery has everything to offer, including the favour of the newly restored King Charles II, and he believes that the warehouse's poor owner Alinor has the one thing his money cannot buy-- his son and heir. A beautiful widow from Venice claims Alinor as her mother-in-law, and has come to tell Alinor that her son Rob has drowned in the dark tides of the Venice lagoon. Alinor writes to her brother Ned, newly arrived in faraway New England and tells him that she knows without doubt that her son is alive and the widow is an imposter. -- adapted from jacket

Series Statement

• The fairmile series ; [book two]
• Gregory, Philippa. Fairmile series ; bk. 2.

Subject

• Tidelands family, (Fictitious character) > Fiction
• 1600's
• 1642-1649
• Success > Fiction
• Families > Fiction
• Legacies > Fiction
• Inheritance and succession > Fiction
• Impostors and imposture > Fiction
• FICTION > Historical > General
• FICTION > Family Life > General
• FICTION > Women
• Legacies
• Inheritance and succession
• Impostors and imposture
• Families
• Civil war
• Success
• Great Britain > History > 1660-1714 > Fiction
• London (England) > Fiction
• England > London
• Great Britain

Genre/Form

• Domestic fiction.
• Fiction.
• Historical fiction.
• History.

Note

• Series numbering from book jacket.
• Map on endpapers.
• Author's name misspelled on some copies as "Phillipa Gregory."
• Sequel to: Tidelands.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-452).

Call Number

JFE 21-1104

ISBN

• 9781501187186
• 150118718X
• 9781501187209 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2020033249

OCLC

1130764298

Author

Gregory, Philippa, author.

Title

Dark tides : a novel / Philippa Gregory.

Publisher

New York : Atria Books, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Edition

First Atria Books hardcover edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The fairmile series ; [book two]

Gregory, Philippa. Fairmile series ; bk. 2.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-452).

Chronological Term

1600's.

1642-1649

Other Form:

Online version: Gregory, Philippa. Dark tides. New York : Atria Books, 2020 9781501187209 (DLC) 2020033250

Research Call Number

JFE 21-1104