This book wasn't what I expected and though I managed to finish it I was disappointed. I had this idea in my head that I was going to get a good solid historical romance which included a focus on the intriguing idea of a bunch of girls shipped off to a colony to be married to complete strangers. ...
It was rainy season, the sky sagging above Mobile like a mouldy mattress, and behind the bluff, where the ground was low, all the houses were flooded. The damp jammed its fat fingers between the timbers of the cabins and paddled the mortar of clay and oyster shells that filled them. Nothing dried...
Despite, or perhaps because of, his irritation with Oscar’s early arrival and at a loss as to what to do with him, Mr Willis had reluctantly agreed to allow Oscar access to the Wren Library, a privilege usually granted only to members of the College. Every morning after breakfast, Oscar gathered ...
In their attic room in the inn at Ferrixao the pale sunlight made patterns like lace on the single dirty pane of the window. Maribel knelt, dragging the trunk containing her camera from its place beneath the narrow iron bed. Inside she had wrapped the camera case in a blanket to keep it from dama...