The Vanished Days - Kearsley, Susanna
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"In the autumn of 1707, old enemies from the Highlands to the Borders are finding common ground as they join to protest the new Union with England, the French are preparing to launch an invasion to carry the young exiled Jacobite king back to Scotland to reclaim his throne, and in Edinburgh the streets are filled with discontent and danger. Queen Anne's commissioners have begun settling the losses and wages owed to those Scots who took part in the disastrous Darien expedition eight years earlier. When young widow Lily Aitcheson comes forward to collect her husband's wages, her claim is…mehr

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"In the autumn of 1707, old enemies from the Highlands to the Borders are finding common ground as they join to protest the new Union with England, the French are preparing to launch an invasion to carry the young exiled Jacobite king back to Scotland to reclaim his throne, and in Edinburgh the streets are filled with discontent and danger. Queen Anne's commissioners have begun settling the losses and wages owed to those Scots who took part in the disastrous Darien expedition eight years earlier. When young widow Lily Aitcheson comes forward to collect her husband's wages, her claim is challenged. Adam Williamson, one of the men who's assigned to investigate Lily's case, has only days to decide if she's honest ... or whether he's being used as a pawn in a treacherous game. Told in two timelines that interweave the troubled weeks in Edinburgh in 1707 with the tales of a woman who lived through the Killing Times, a revolution, and Scotland's loss of a colony in the Americas, this is a story of intrigue, adventure, endurance, romance ... and the courage to hope"--
Autorenporträt
New York Times, USA Today, and Globe and Mail bestselling author Susanna Kearsley is a former museum curator who loves restoring the lost voices of real people to the page, often in twin-stranded stories that interweave present and past. Her award-winning novels have been published in translation in more than 25 countries. She lives near Toronto.
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Praise for Susanna Kearsley:

'I've loved every one of Susanna's books! She has bedrock research and a butterfly's delicate touch with characters - historical fiction that pulls you in and won't let go!' Diana Gabaldon

'Kearsley has a poetic sensibility and a sense of mystery; she could write the modern Rebecca.' The Bookseller

'Evocative and romantic' Nicola Cornick

'Sometimes an author catches lightning in a bottle, and Susanna Kearsley does just that'
New York Journal of Books

'A deeply engaging romance and a compelling historical novel...Susanna Kearsley has written a marvellous book.' Bernard Cornwell

'One of Canada's best historical fiction writers' The Globe and Mail

'Kearsley is nothing less than a magician weaving together the past and the present... utterly unputdownable' M J Rose

'A master storyteller' Leslie Howard