Winchelsea

Winchelsea
Alex Preston
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Hardback
h220 x 144mm - 352pg
3 Feb 2022 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781838854843
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The year is 1742. Goody Brown, saved from drowning and adopted when just a babe, has grown up happily in the smuggling town of Winchelsea. Then, when Goody turns sixteen, her father is murdered in the night by men he thought were friends. To find justice in a lawless land, Goody must enter the cut-throat world of her father' s killers. With her beloved brother Francis, she joins a rival gang of smugglers. Facing high seas and desperate villains, she also discovers something else: an existence without constraints or expectations, a taste for danger that makes her blood run fast. Goody was never born to be a gentlewoman. But what will she become instead? Winchelsea is an electrifying story of vengeance and transformation; a rare, lyrical and transporting work of historical imagination that makes the past so real we can touch it.
' Imagine Daphne du Maurier crossed with Quentin Tarantino, and you will have some idea of just what a thrilling, bloody and heady ride this novel is' - TOM HOLLAND ' I was riveted. Winchelsea is a great read - terrific narrative drive, credible characters, and such an elegant creation of the backdrop in terms of both time and place' - PENELOPE LIVELY ' Winchelsea and its fierce young heroine swept me away on an irresistible tide of adventure, revenge, horror, love, smuggling and high drama on land and sea. What a brilliant idea to rework Moonfleet, but add some contemporary touches to the mix. Huge fun, superbly atmospheric and thoroughly enjoyable' - AMANDA CRAIG ' What a story! What a heroine! What an adventure! Alex Preston sweeps you from scene to scene, surprise to surprise with all the deft theatricality and fluency of a modern Robert Louis Stevenson. I have rarely read anything so vivid or that makes the eighteenth century, with all its ambitions, terrors, desires and sheer juiciness, so grippingly alive. Huzzah!' - ADAM NICOLSON ' Praise for In Love and War: [R]ich and evocative . . . Powerfully affecting, ambitious in its scope, precise in its attention to detail and infused with a love for Florence and its motley eccentrics ' - Observer ' Exhilarating . . . Preston' s flair for recreating atmosphere and contemporary speech is immaculate' - Financial Times
Alex Preston is an award-winning author of three novels: This Bleeding City, The Revelations and In Love and War, as well as a book of non-fiction As Kingfishers Catch Fire. He writes regularly for the Telegraph, the Economist and Harper' s Bazaar. He reviews books for the Observer' s New Review, Financial Times and Spectator. Alex is co-founder of the Corfu Literary Festival and Patron of Oxford Literary Festival. @ahmpreston
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781838854843
Published: 3 Feb 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Canongate Books
Publisher: Canongate Books
Format: Hardback
Height: 220mm
Width: 144mm
Spine: 33mm
Weight: 464g
Pages: 352

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