Fleeing the brutality of her father, poet, smuggler, and drunkard Harry Peake, Martha Peake sets sail for America, where she becomes caught up in the colonies' struggle for independence from Britain, but she soon discovers that she cannot escape the betrayals of the past. 40,000 first printing.
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Patrick McGrath was born in London and grew up near Broadmoor Hospital, where for many years his father was medical superintendent. He is the author of The <i>Grotesque</i>, <i>Blood and Water and Other Tales</i>, <i>Spider</i>, <i>Dr. Haggard's Disease</i>, and <i>Asylum</i>. He lives in New York City and London and is married to the actress Maria Aitken.
teller Patrick McGrath--author of the critically acclaimed novel <b>Asylum</b> and a finalist for England's prestigious Whitbread Prize for fiction--once again spins a hypnotic tale of psychological suspense and haunting beauty. Set among the teeming streets and desolate wharves of Hogarth's London, then shifting to the powder-keg colony of Massachusetts Bay, <b>Martha Peake</b> envelops the reader in a world on the brink of revolution, and introduces us to a flame-haired heroine who will live in the imagination long after the last page is turned.<br><br>Settled with our narrator beside a crackling fire, we hear of the poet and smuggler Harry Peake--how Harry lost his wife, Grace, in a tragic fire that left him horribly disfigured; how he made a living displaying his deformed spine in the alehouses of eighteenth-century London; and how his only solace was his devoted daughter, Martha, who inherited all of his fire but none of his passion for cheap gin. As the drink eats away at Harry
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