The Favoured Child

Resumen del libro

Reissue of the second novel in the Wideacre Trilogy; a compulsive drama set in the eighteenth century. The Wideacre estate is bankrupt, the villagers are living in poverty and Wideacre Hall is a smoke-blackened ruin. But in the Dower House two children are being raised in protected innocence.

Equal claimants to the inheritance of Wideacre, rivals for the love of the village, they are tied by a secret childhood betrothal but forbidden to marry. Only one can be the favoured child. Only one can inherit the magical understanding between the land and the Lacey family that can make the Sussex village grow green again.

Only one can be Beatrice Lacey's true heir. Sweeping, passionate, unique: 'The Favoured Child' is the second novel in Philippa Gregory's bestselling trilogy which began with 'Wideacre' and concluded with 'Meridon'.

Biografía del autor

Philippa Gregory es una escritora de reconocido prestigio internacional. Doctorada en literatura del s. XVIII por la Universidad de Edimburgo, se ha ganado el aplauso de la crítica y del público. Es conocida por su precisión histórica, la meticulosidad de sus investigaciones y por la genialidad con la que mezcla detalles históricos reales, historias de amor, aventuras y vida de corte.