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OverviewFrom the critically acclaimed author of The Widow's War comes a captivating work of literary historical fiction that explores the tenuous relationship between a brilliant and complex father and his devoted daughter—Thomas Jefferson and Martha Jefferson Randolph. After the death of her beloved mother, Martha Jefferson spent five years abroad with her father, Thomas Jefferson, on his first diplomatic mission to France. Now, at seventeen, Jefferson’s bright, handsome eldest daughter is returning to the lush hills of the family’s beloved Virginia plantation, Monticello. While the large, beautiful estate is the same as she remembers, Martha has changed. The young girl that sailed to Europe is now a woman with a heart made heavy by a first love gone wrong. The world around her has also become far more complicated than it once seemed. The doting father she idolized since childhood has begun to pull away. Moving back into political life, he has become distracted by the tumultuous fight for power and troubling new attachments. The home she adores depends on slavery, a practice Martha abhors. But Monticello is burdened by debt, and it cannot survive without the labor of her family’s slaves. The exotic distant cousin she is drawn to has a taste for dangerous passions, dark desires that will eventually compromise her own. As her life becomes constrained by the demands of marriage, motherhood, politics, scandal, and her family’s increasing impoverishment, Martha yearns to find her way back to the gentle beauty and quiet happiness of the world she once knew at the top of her father’s “little mountain.” Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sally Cabot GunningPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc Imprint: Avon Books Dimensions: Width: 13.40cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 20.30cm Weight: 0.285kg ISBN: 9780062320445ISBN 10: 0062320440 Pages: 384 Publication Date: 11 August 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsGunning . . . does an elegant job of re-creating history in a novel that portrays the passions and disappointments of the people making that history. --<i>Cape Cod Times</i> Gunning . . . does an elegant job of re-creating history in a novel that portrays the passions and disappointments of the people making that history. --Cape Cod Times Author InformationSally Cabot Gunning lives in Brewster, Massachusetts, with her husband, Tom. A lifelong resident of New England, she is active in local historical organizations and creates tours that showcase the three-hundred-year history of her village. She is the author of three ""Satucket novels"" (The Widow's War, Bound, and The Rebellion of Jane Clarke), as well as the historical novels Benjamin Franklin's Bastard and Monticello. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |