The Wilding

Author: McCann, Maria

Brand: Penguin Random House

Edition: Main

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 352

Release Date: 01-03-2011

Part Number: 8139639

Details: Product Description
A novel of secrets and revenge within a seventeenth-century English family. Longlisted for the Orange Prize1672. A generation after the Civil War, Jonathan Dymond, a cider maker, has so far enjoyed a quiet life. But when he discovers a letter from his dying uncle, hinting an inheritance and revenge, he is determined to unravel the mystery in his family. Under the pretence of his cider business, Jonathan visits his newly widowed aunt and there meets her unruly servant girl, Tamar, who soon reveals that she has secrets of her own...
Book Description
The Wilding by Maria McCann is the passionate, thrilling and hugely satisfying quest for the dark truth at the heart of a seventeenth-century English family.
About the Author
Maria McCann is the author of
As Meat Loves Salt (Fourth Estate, 2001) which was an
Economist Book of the Year and
The Wilding (Faber, 2010) which was longlisted for the Orange Prize and chosen as a Richard and Judy book club choice, and most recently
Ace, King, Knave, chosen by Hilary Mantel as one of the best books of the year in the
Observer. She has also contributed to various anthologies, most recently to
Why Willows Weep and
Beacons (edited by Gregory Norminton).

EAN: 9780571251872

Package Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.0 x 0.9 inches

Languages: English