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The American Heiress: A Novel by Daisy Goodwin

By Daisy Goodwin

"Anyone agony Downton Abbey withdrawal signs (who isn't?) will locate an rapid tonic in Daisy Goodwin’s The American Heiress. the tale of Cora funds, an American heiress within the Eighteen Nineties who luggage an English duke, this can be a deliciously evocative first novel that lingers within the mind." --Allison Pearson, long island instances bestselling writer of I Don’t understand how She Does It and I imagine i admire You

Be cautious what you need for. touring overseas along with her mom on the flip of the 20 th century to hunt a titled husband, attractive, vivacious Cora funds, whose kin mansion in Newport dwarfs the Vanderbilts’, without notice reveals herself Duchess of Wareham, married to Ivo, the main eligible bachelor in England. not anything is sort of because it turns out, besides the fact that: Ivo is withdrawn and secretive, and the English social scene is stuffed with traps and betrayals. cash, Cora quickly learns, can't purchase every little thing, as she needs to make a decision what's really definitely worth the expense in her existence and her marriage.

Witty, relocating, and brilliantly wonderful, Cora’s tale marks the debut of a wonderful storyteller who brings a clean new spirit to the realm of Edith Wharton and Henry James.

"For daughters of the hot American billionaires of the nineteenth century, it used to be the last word deal: marriage to a cash-strapped British Aristocrat in go back for a name and social prestige. yet cash didn’t consistently purchase them happiness." --Daisy Goodwin in The day-by-day Mail</I> <I>The American Heiress was initially offered and dispensed within the united kingdom as My final Duchess

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The voice speculated with amusement. "If the gentlemen will remove themselves from the carriage for just a moment, we won't keep them longer than it takes to relieve them of their purses," the highwayman invited politely. The Duke looked at the pistols pointed at his heart, and shrugging at the Contessa's frightened face and Lord Wrainton's outraged one, he climbed from the carriage, pausing briefly as he saw the tartan sash of the highwayman before stepping carefully into the muddy roadway. "Well, well, if it isn't my scar-faced friend from the party.

This time she has outmaneuvered me and I must swallow my pride and give in gracefully. I have no other choice if I wish to own my ancestral home, and I have vowed that no one but I shall inherit it. So, I find myself in the position of being engaged to the Lady Blanche Delande, the Dowager Duchess's choice as a perfect wife for me, despite my feelings to the contrary. " Sir Jeremy felt a twinge of unease as he stared at his friend's haughty profile, the sherry-colored eyes narrowed reflectively and the finely chiseled lips curved in an unpleasant smile.

Not much to look at I'm afraid. It's just a small Elizabethan manor house, and I haven't even seen it in Lord knows how many years, come to think of it. " he speculated idly. "Caro, we should pay a visit to this little house," the Contessa suggested, then turning to the Duke explained, "You see, I am the Marquis' third wife, and as yet I have not met his family. " she demanded with a frown. " Lord Wrainton shrugged carelessly. " "You obviously haven't seen your children in some time," the Duke commented sardonically.

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