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The American Heiress

The American Heiress

by Daisy Goodwin
Publication Date: 08/05/2012

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"Anyone suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms (who isn't?) will find an instant tonic in Daisy Goodwin's The American Heiress. The story of Cora Cash, an American heiress in the 1890s who bags an English duke, this is a deliciously evocative first novel that lingers in the mind." --Allison Pearson, New York Times bestselling author of I Don't Know How She Does It and I Think I Love You Be careful what you wish for. Traveling abroad with her mother at the turn of the twentieth century to seek a titled husband, beautiful, vivacious Cora Cash, whose family mansion in Newport dwarfs the Vanderbilts', suddenly finds herself Duchess of Wareham, married to Ivo, the most eligible bachelor in England. Nothing is quite as it seems, however: Ivo is withdrawn and secretive, and the English social scene is full of traps and betrayals. Money, Cora soon learns, cannot buy everything, as she must decide what is truly worth the price in her life and her marriage. Witty, moving, and brilliantly entertaining, Cora's story marks the debut of a glorious storyteller who brings a fresh new spirit to the world of Edith Wharton and Henry James.
ISBN:
9781594135309
9781594135309
Category:
Historical romance
Publication Date:
08-05-2012
Language:
English
Publisher:
Large Print Press
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
676
Dimensions (mm):
211x140x33mm
Weight:
0.61kg
Daisy Goodwin

Daisy Goodwin, creator and screenwriter of the Masterpiece presentation Victoria on PBS, is also the author of the novel Victoria, as well as the New York Times bestsellers The American Heiress and The Fortune Hunter.

She attended Columbia University's film school as a Harkness scholar after earning a degree in history at Cambridge University, and was chair of the judging panel of the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction. She lives in London.

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