A Book of Secrets (Jacaranda) - Hardcover

Morrison, Kate

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1909762695 ISBN 13: 9781909762695

Verlag: Jacaranda Books Art Music Ltd, 2019

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A tale of religious fervour, loyalty, piracy, desire and identity, The Book of Secrets is a masterful piece of storytelling that draws you into a Tudor London you won't have visited before. Our guide, Susan (or Nsowah), who was born in Ghana but raised in Sussex, inhabits a world of printers, crypto-Catholics, Jewish conversos, pirates and Guinea traders. Her city is much more diverse and permeable than is often assumed: we learn that a Tudor blackamoor could also be a wife, learn a trade, and become an intelligencer. But this is no heavy-handed history lesson; Susan's quest to find security, happiness, and discover her true identity intrigues the reader from the start, has us rooting for her through her gripping adventures and leaves us wanting more. --Miranda Kaufmann, author of Black Tudors

A Book of Secrets is fresh and impressively researched. With its engaging heroine, Nsowah positioned at the very heart of an Elizabethan drama, Morrison offers an intriguing and important update on historical novels where black characters have been either absent or confined to the margins. Morrison's rich and complex rendering of the interior of Nsowah s life shows her to be an empathic and talented new writer. --Colin Grant

Reseña del editor

A Book of Secrets tells the story of a West African girl hunting for her lostbrother through an Elizabethan underworld of spies, plots and secret Catholicprinting presses.Susan Charlewood is taken from Ghana (then known as Guinea) as a baby. Brought to England, she grows up as maidservant in a wealthy Catholic household. Living under a Protestant Queen in late 16th Century England, the family risk imprisonment or death unless they keep their faith hidden.When her mistress dies Susan is married off to a London printer who is deeply involved in the Catholic resistance. She finds herself embroiled in political and religious intrigue, all while trying to find her lost brother and discover the truth about her origins.In A Book of Secrets Kate Morrison explores the perils of voicing dissent in a state that demands outward conformity, at a time when England is taking its first steps into the long shadow of transatlantic slavery and old certainties about the shape of the universe itself are crumbling. A Book of Secrets gives a striking, compelling new perspective on the era, allowing one of the thousands of lost Elizabethan voices to speak out loud.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Jacaranda Books Art Music Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1909762695
• ISBN 13: 9781909762695
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320