Crowning Mercy Tapa dura -

Hardback. Acceptable.

Hardback. Very Good.

This book has been read, minor wear to covers and dust cover, some markings and stamps inner pages as former library book. Spine intact, no creases.

"A highly entertaining, wonderfully colourful story, now revealed to be written by one of our favourite historical novelists. In mid seventeenth-century England, the nation was in upheaval. In the Dorset countryside, one sunlit afternoon, a young girl - illicitly bathing in a stream - first fell in love with a passing stranger. Her parents called her Dorcas, but he called her Campion and that's what she longed to be, then and forever. She had one gift left for her by her unknown father - a pendant made of gold, banded by tiny glowing stones and at its base was a seal engraved with an axe and the words: St Matthew. So when she flees before the unbearable, worthy suitor who is forced upon her after her forbidden meeting, she takes this and the delicate lace gloves with her, and hopes to find her father, and her lover. There are four of these intricately… Leer más

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.