Birdcage walk / Helen Dunmore.
It is 1792 and Europe is seized by political turmoil and violence. Lizzie Fawkes has grown up in Radical circles where each step of the French Revolution is followed with eager idealism. But she has recently married John Diner Tredevant, a property developer who is heavily invested in Bristol's housing boom, and he has everything to lose from social upheaval and the prospect of war. Soon his plans for a magnificent terrace built above the two-hundred-foot drop of the Gorge come under threat. Tormented and striving Diner believes that Lizzie's independent, questioning spirit must be coerced and subdued. She belongs to him: law and custom confirm it, and she must live as he wants--his passion for Lizzie darkening until she finds herself dangerously alone. Weaving a deeply personal and moving story with a historical moment of critical and complex importance, Birdcage Walk is an unsettling and brilliantly tense drama of public and private violence, resistance and terror from one of our greatest storytellers.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780802127143
- ISBN: 0802127142
- Physical Description: 406 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: 1st Grove Atlantic edition
- Publisher: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2017
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- England > Social life and customs > 18th century > Fiction.
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- Historical fiction.
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- 12 of 12 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richlands Branch Library | FIC DUNMORE (Text) | 36015001498332 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
