Adam Runaway - Hardcover

Prince, Peter

3.35

65 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0747578761 ISBN 13: 9780747578765

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2005

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1721. George I is on the throne and Britain just emerging as the world's leading commercial power. Handsome young Adam Hanaway arrives in Lisbon, where his uncle is a merchant, hoping to restore the family fortune, devastated the previous year by his father's speculations on the South Sea Bubble. But almost nothing turns out as Adam planned. His family's welcome is cool and his rise to the top thwarted by his uncle's treacherous head clerk Bartolomeu Gomes. Nor is Adam, with his gaudy clothes and his young-man swagger, an immediate success with his uncle's fellow merchants. But there are plenty of compensations - perhaps too many! There is Maria Beatriz, a woman of great personal style and indeterminate age; the incomparably sweet Gabriella, whose innocence Adam unintentionally threatens, and Nancy, his deliciously charming young cousin. Adam is out of his depth, but happily so - until darker forces intervene. Expelled from his uncle's firm, Adam must clear his name, win his love, and make his fortune. Adam Runaway is a heady tale of love and death and money, written with great relish and suspense. Here is an unforgettable cast of characters and a magical backdrop - Lisbon, wealthy, cosmopolitan and under the shadow of the Portuguese Inquisition. Rambunctious, bawdy, tender and profound, this is a wonderful read.

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Review:

""Adam Runaway" is a picaresque novel that will surprise the reader on almost every page. . . . In addition to these pleasures, it sounds some profound moral and religious notes that will linger in the imagination long after the book has been closed." -- Robert Hellenga, author of "The Sixteen Pleasures"

"Historically precise and brilliantly detailed, Prince's novel is a vast tapestry of cosmopolitan Lisbon." -- curledup.com

"A stunning historical novel with an unforgettable hero." -- Publishing News (UK)

"An English Candide wanders into eighteenth-century Lisbon . . . a pleasing and well-written confection." -- Kirkus Reviews

"Adam Runaway is a picaresque novel that will surprise the reader on almost every page. . . . In addition to these pleasures, it sounds some profound moral and religious notes that will linger in the imagination long after the book has been closed." -- Robert Hellenga, author of The Sixteen Pleasures

"Prince's descriptions are so vivid, his vision so real, that Adam, with all his bawdy romps and exciting adventures, emerges as a very modern hero." -- Daily Mirror (UK)

From the Publisher:

A stunning, rambunctious historical novel which delivers all the satisfaction of the great nineteenth-century classics of Dickens, Thackeray and Fielding

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