Alice in Exile - Hardcover

Read, Piers Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0297817604 ISBN 13: 9780297817604

Verlag: W&N, 2001

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Book by Read Piers Paul

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This wonderful novel, set in England and Russia at the time of the Great War, tells the story of Alice Fry ¿ an independent woman in a world ruled by men ¿ and the two men who love her. In 1913, Alice meets Edward Cobb, eligible young son of a baronet, at an avant-garde party in Chelsea. They fall in love and get engaged, but Edward¿s family thinks Alice ¿fast¿. When Alice¿s father becomes involved in a sexual scandal, Edward has to choose between Alice and his political career. He breaks off the engagement, not knowing that Alice is expecting his child. Desperate, Alice accepts the offer of a rich Russian, Baron von Rettenberg, to go to Russia as a governess for his children, while Edward enters an unhappy marriage. Alice gives birth to a son and yearns for Edward though the Baron von Rettenburg loves her. The Great War takes its terrible toll and the Russian Revolution explodes. Trapped by the Red Army in the Black Sea port of Novorossiik, Alice, her son and Rettenberg are saved by a member of the British Military Mission ¿ Edward Cobb.

Biografía del autor:

Piers Paul Read is a well-known journalist and the author of several acclaimed and bestselling works of fiction and non-fiction, including the phenomenal bestseller Alive!. He is married to Emily Read and they have four children. He is a regular contributor to the Daily Mail, the Mail on Sunday, the Evening Standard, The Times and the Spectator.

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• Verlag: W&N
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0297817604
• ISBN 13: 9780297817604
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352