The Favored Child - Philippa Gregory torrent

Category: Adults, Historical Fiction
Language: EnglishKeywords: Betrayal Secrets Wideacre
Written by Philippa Gregory
Read by Kate Rawson
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
Series: Wideacre, Book 2
Length: 25 hrs and 27 mins
Release date: 09-12-17
Publisher: Audible Studios
The once great Lacey estate Wideacre is restored to its former grandeur—though not without cost.
The Wideacre estate is bankrupt. The villagers are living in poverty and formerly stunning hall is a smoke-blackened ruin after a calamity that also destroyed beautiful, vicious Beatrice Lacey. But, in the Dower House nearby, two children are being raised in protected innocence.
Equal claimants to the estate, rivals for the love of the village, they are tied by a secret childhood betrothal but forbidden to marry, heirs Julia and Richard are cousins,. Only one can be the favored 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. Sensual, gripping, and mystical, The Favored Child irresistibly sweeps the reader into a world of secrets, betrayals, and power in this revolutionary period of English history.
Julia’s trance-like dreams, which unite her to the dead Beatrice and hint at the past’s dark secrets, enable her to save Acre village from disaster. Worried by her “gift,” Julia’s family hopes she can be “cured” in Bath, but there she meets James Fortescue, who is far kinder than the petulant Richard. Julia’s growing assertiveness and recognition of Richard’s tyranny keep the reader rooting for her. Rich with rural English scenes–the hovels of the poor whom Julia aids, the fields she manages, the woods where she races her beloved horse–Gregory’s galloping plot leads to a savage but satisfying conclusion that piques anticipation for the trilogy’s conclusion
Series: Wideacre, Book 2
Length: 25 hrs and 27 mins
Release date: 09-12-17
Publisher: Audible Studios

The once great Lacey estate Wideacre is restored to its former grandeur—though not without cost.

The Wideacre estate is bankrupt. The villagers are living in poverty and formerly stunning hall is a smoke-blackened ruin after a calamity that also destroyed beautiful, vicious Beatrice Lacey. But, in the Dower House nearby, two children are being raised in protected innocence.

Equal claimants to the estate, rivals for the love of the village, they are tied by a secret childhood betrothal but forbidden to marry, heirs Julia and Richard are cousins,. Only one can be the favored 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. Sensual, gripping, and mystical, The Favored Child irresistibly sweeps the reader into a world of secrets, betrayals, and power in this revolutionary period of English history.

Julia’s trance-like dreams, which unite her to the dead Beatrice and hint at the past’s dark secrets, enable her to save Acre village from disaster. Worried by her “gift,” Julia’s family hopes she can be “cured” in Bath, but there she meets James Fortescue, who is far kinder than the petulant Richard. Julia’s growing assertiveness and recognition of Richard’s tyranny keep the reader rooting for her. Rich with rural English scenes–the hovels of the poor whom Julia aids, the fields she manages, the woods where she races her beloved horse–Gregory’s galloping plot leads to a savage but satisfying conclusion that piques anticipation for the trilogy’s conclusion