03047cam a2200493 i 4500 559261768 TxAuBib 20220525120000.0 200724s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020033249 9781501187186 hardcover 150118718X hardcover (OCoLC)1130764298 TxAuBib rda Gregory, Philippa. Dark tides. Dark tides : a novel / Philippa Gregory. First Atria Books hardcover edition. New York : Atria Books, 2020. 452 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier fairmile series, The Color maps on end papers. Sequel to: Tidelands. Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-452). "Philippa Gregory's new historical novel tracks the rise of the Tidelands family in London, Venice, and New England. Midsummer Eve 1670. Two unexpected visitors arrive at a shabby warehouse on the south side of the River Thames. The first is a wealthy man hoping to find the lover he deserted twenty-one years before. James Avery has everything to offer, including the favour of the newly restored King Charles II, and he believes that the warehouse's poor owner Alinor has the one thing his money cannot buy--his son and heir. The second visitor is a beautiful widow from Venice in deepest mourning. She claims Alinor as her mother-in-law and has come to tell Alinor that her son Rob has drowned in the dark tides of the Venice lagoon. Alinor writes to her brother Ned, newly arrived in faraway New England and trying to make a life between the worlds of the English newcomers and the American Indians as they move toward inevitable war. Alinor tells him that she knows--without doubt--that her son is alive and the widow is an imposter. Set in the poverty and glamour of Restoration London, in the golden streets of Venice, and on the tensely contested frontier of early America, this is a novel of greed and desire: for love, for wealth, for a child, and for home"--Provided by publisher. 20220525. Cunning folk Fiction. Mothers and daughters Fiction. Women Social conditions 17th century Fiction. Great Britain History Restoration, 1660-1688 Fiction. Great Britain History Charles II, 1660-1685 Fiction. London (England) History 17th century Fiction. Venice (Italy) History 1508-1797 Fiction. New England History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Fiction. Domestic fiction. Historical fiction. The fairmile series. TXMAR