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Creature Comforts
ISBN: 9780312171636
定价: 170.00
内容简介
Jessica stirling is one of the pre-
m ier historical novelists no, writ-
ing. She is most famous for the
Holly Beckman trilogy of novels
set in the Scottish countryside. In
Creature Comforts, she continues
her sumptuous new trilogy--also
set in Scotland--that was inaugu-
rated by Treasures on Earth: a
colorful, deeply felt saga of the
lives and loves of the indomitable
Gaddy Patterson and her daugh-
ters, Elspeth and Anna.
By the year 1813 the good folk of
the Scottish village of Balnesmoor
are able to breathe freely, for it
appears that Gaddy Patterson s
wayward daughters are at last set-
tled in marriage. Elspeth is wife to
James Moodie, wealthy owner of a
thriving woolen mill; Anna to Matt
Sinclair, son of the respected gov-
ernor of Ottershaw. But Elspeth s
marriage is a loveless sham,
clouded by an unthinkable secret
known only to her husband; and
Anna, selfish and impetuous, has
no time for Matt and dreams only
nf the day when Randall Bontine
will return from the war in Spain
to lay claim to Ottershaw and to
her.
For Elspeth the discovery of
love and its consequences throws
a shadnw over the future by forc-
ing James Moodie into a desperate
act of retributton.
