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Seller: Wagon Tongue Books, Linden, AB, CanadaWagon Tongue Books
AbeBooks seller since November 4, 1999
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This is a fictionalized history account of the life of Letitia Elizabeth Landon. When she was at school at Oxford she signed her poetry - L.E.L - to conceal her identity. The bulk of the story - circa 1836 - takes place in Africa's Gold Coast where `Letty' went as a married woman. Read more about: Kudjoe, Lossiemouth, flogging, Seacliffe Hoitel, rhymester, five shillings, by-blows, feather dusters, and Mrs. Daisy Harkness. A b/w map of Aftica is the only illustration. Cond : Paper wrapper has black (and white) lettering and a colourful wrapper. In all senses, CLEAN and crisp and bright. No names. Giftable !! QUote (p. 141) : " ._._. was so caught up in Castle business he never noticed how listlessly I pushed the food around my plate. I had terrible dreams, but when I awoke, shaking and sweaty, I could not remember them. Mrs. Bailey began going through her trunk to see ._._._. ." Size: 8vo.
Seller Inventory # 014237
- Title
- Local Customs
- Author
- Thomas, Audrey
- Publisher
- Dundurn, Toronto
- Publication year
- 2014
- Condition
- Fine
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1459707982
- ISBN 13
- 9781459707986
- Illustrator
- Harry Borgman (cover)
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Fiction
Nominated for the 2014 Victoria Book Prize
An Englishwoman’s mysterious death in 19th-century West Africa haunts those left behind.
Letitia Landon, "Letty" to her friends, is an intelligent, witty, successful writer, much sought after for dinner parties and soirées in the London of the 1830s. But, still single at thirty-six, she fears ending up as a wizened crone in a dilapidated country cottage, a cat her only companion.
Just as she is beginning to believe she will never marry, she meets George Maclean, home on leave from his position as the governor of Cape Coast Castle on the Gold Coast of West Africa. George and Letty marry quietly and set sail for Cape Coast. Eight weeks later she is dead ― not from malaria or dysentery or any of the multitude of dangers in her new home, but by her own hand. Or so it would seem.
Local Customs examines, in poetic detail, a way of life that has faded into history. It was a time when religious and cultural assimilation in the British colonies gave rise to a new, strange social order. Letty speaks from beyond the grave to let the reader see the world through her eyes and explore the mystery of her death. Was she disturbed enough to kill herself, or was someone ― or something ― else involved?
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About the Author
Audrey Thomas has published 17 previous novels and short story collections. Her novels Intertidal Life and Coming Down from Wa were nominated for Governor General's Literary Awards and won B.C.'s Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. In 2003 she won the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award. Audrey lives on Galiano Island, British Columbia.
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Wagon Tongue Books
Linden, AB, Canada
AbeBooks seller since November 4, 1999
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I am a small home-based business so I may be difficult to reach by phone. I'm in the Mountain time zone. I've been passionate about books for approximately 30 years. Thank you for thinking Wagon Tongue.
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Wagon Tongue Books
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