Rebellion of Jane Clarke, The - Softcover

Gunning, Sally

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061782157 ISBN 13: 9780061782152

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks, 2011

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: 2011 Pages: 304 in Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers On the eve of the Revolutionary War a young woman is On caught between tradition and independence. family and conscience. Loyalty and love in this spellbinding novel from the author of The Widow's War and Bound Jane Clarke leads a simple yet rich life in the small village of Satucket on Cape Cod. The viant scent of the ocean eeze. the stark beauty of the dunes. the stillness of the millpond are among the daily joys she treasures . Her days are full attending to her father's needs. minding her younger siblings. working with the local midwife. But at twenty-two. Jane knows things will change. Someday. perhaps soon. she will be expected to move out of her father's home and start a household of her own.Yet some things-including the bitter feud between her father and a fellow miller named Winslow-appear l...

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Review:

"Quietly compelling . . . . Gunning paints the ethical, emotional, and financial dilemmas of her refreshingly adult characters in surprisingly lively shades of gray."--Kirkus Reviews

"Readers will be swiftly turning the pages, eagerly cheering for the strong-willed widow."--Booklist

"A gifted storyteller . . . has given us a deeply affecting tale of a woman caught between the irresistible currents of her inner truth and the equally powerful strictures of her times."--Anne LeClaire, author of The Law of Bound Hearts and Entering Normal

"Gripping, romantic, historically sound, and completely satisfying...I'll be surprised if I read a better historical novel this year."--Historical Novels Review (The Historical Novel Society); "Editor's Choice"

"Nobody brings the Cape's history alive like Sally Gunning."--Cape Codder on THE REBELLION OF JANE CLARKE

"Gunning's exquisite use of language and imaginative scene-setting in times past will keep readers riveted . . . Anyone who loves history, storytelling, and Cape Cod will want to settle in for a long weekend of pleasurable escape."--Cape Cod Life on BOUND

"Unlike many historical novelists, Gunning makes the long-ago feel like this very day. Elegantly, she tells bitter truths -- that dignity and grace and even abiding love can flourish where it seems nothing can grow."--Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean and Still Summer

"Historical fiction at its best."--Library Journal (starred review)

"Provocative . . . Gunning infuses the story with suspense and intrigue [and] resists easy generalizations and stereotypes."--Publishers Weekly

"[A] colonial page-turner...horrifying, spellbinding."--Publishers Weekly

From the Back Cover:

Jane Clarke leads a simple yet rich life in the village of Satucket on Cape Cod--until her refusal to marry the man her father has picked out as his son-in-law causes an irreparable tear in the family fabric. Banished to Boston to make her living as best she can, Jane enters a strange, bustling city awash with redcoats and rebellious fervor. And soon her new life is complicated by her growing attachment to her frail aunt, her friendship with the bookseller Henry Knox, and the unexpected kindness of British soldiers, which pits her against the townspeople and her own brother, Nate, a law clerk working for John Adams. But it is the infamous Boston Massacre--the killing of five colonists by British soldiers on a cold March evening in 1770--that forces Jane to question accepted truths as she confronts the most difficult choice of her life.

Sally Gunning's The Rebellion of Jane Clarke is an unforgettable story of one woman's struggle to find her own place and leave her mark as a new country is born.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0061782157
• ISBN 13: 9780061782152
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304