Bad Juliet (eBook)

Giles Blunt (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
352 Seiten
Dundurn Press (Verlag)
978-1-4597-5570-3 (ISBN)

Infos

At a tuberculosis sanitarium in the Adirondacks, a young tutor falls in love with a mysterious woman who survived the Lusitania disaster."e;Bad Juliet will hold you in its grip from its opening pages, combining the pacing and twists of a thriller with the compelling characterizations and masterful prose of a writer at the top of his form."e; - Nino Ricci, award-winning author of The Origin of SpeciesRecently jilted by his fiance, Paul Gascoyne takes a job as a tutor to the patients at the Trudeau Sanitarium in upstate New York. There, in the icebound beauty of the Adirondack Mountains, he finds himself drawn to Sarah Ballard, a beautiful but enigmatic young woman, traumatized by her past aboard the ill-fated ship Lusitania. To rouse her out of her gloom, Paul encourages her to write a memoir.As Paul reads her words, it gradually becomes clear that Sarah's memories are a tangle of truth and fiction that he can't begin to unravel. And yet he cannot overcome his attraction to her. When a terrible relapse leaves Sarah worried that she has little time left, she begs Paul to be the one person in the world who will truly know her.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.8.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: Abortion • actor-managers • believe the women • broadway history • Cunard • cure cottages • Early 20th Century • Isolated setting • Love Story • Love Triangle • Lusitania • Medical History • Me too • Mountains • mysterious woman • North Country • Ocean liner • Pandemic • passionate • Romantic • sanitarium • Saranac Lake • Shipwreck • strong female character • The Adirondacks • The Moderns • tragic • treatment centres • Tuberculosis • Unreliable Narrator • World War I • Young Artists
• ISBN-10: 1-4597-5570-7 / 1459755707
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4597-5570-3 / 9781459755703