A Catch of Consequence: 1 (Makepeace Hedley) - Softcover

Norman, Diana

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0425190153 ISBN 13: 9780425190159

Publisher: Berkley Books, 2003

Synopsis

A captivating historical novel from the national bestselling author, as Ariana Franklin, of Mistress of the Art of Death.

Makepeace Burke serves Patriots at her late father's tavern on the Boston waterfront in 1765 and hates the redcoats with a vengeance. But even she can't watch an angry mob drown an Englishman. She rescues him and nurses him back to health-and falls in love.

In Patriot Boston, hers is an unforgivable sin-made worse by the fact that her Englishman turns out be the aristocratic Sir Philip Dapifer. Philip must smuggle Makepeace aboard a ship bound for London and save her life at the expense of the world she knows.

Rich in period detail, bringing the years of colonial rebellion to vivid life, A Catch of Consequence is a stylish novel of Boston and England, and of a woman who defies convention in both worlds.

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Review:

"Makepeace is so irresistibly indomitable, readers will relish every moment of her unforgettable adventures."
-Booklist

"Moves at a cracking pace...An exhilarating sense of those times and their possibilities."
-The Daily Telegraph

From the Back Cover:

Makepeace Burke, keeper of a tavern on the waterfront in Boston, could no more watch a fellow creature drown than she could stop the wind blowing. But the price she paid for rescuing an English aristocrat after he had been attacked by the mob was high. She might be a supporter of the more reasonable colonists but she had committed an apparently unforgiveable sin. So her inn became deserted, her brother was tarred and feathered, and her respectable fiancee and his family deserted her. When the Patriots turned to burning her home, she knew she had to take the offer of the much despised Englishmen and so, saved by the Navy and accompanied by her remarkable retinue, she sails for London.

She marries her Englishman as his second wife but finds that English society does not easily accept uneducated, colonial, ex-tavernkeepers – and the first wife, well connected and refusing to acknowledge a divorce, proves a dirty fighter. But Makepeace, having been chased out of one town by intolerance, is not going to let that happen again. And the reader is rooting for her all the way.

Diana Norman has written an unusual, sparkling novel, truly unputdownable. She is an addictive taste.

About this edition

• Publisher: Berkley Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0425190153
• ISBN 13: 9780425190159
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400