Sonia Velton
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in eighteenth-century Spitalfields, London, Blackberry and Wild Rose is the rich and atmospheric tale of a household of Huguenot silk weavers as the pursuit of the perfect silk design leads them all into ambition, love, and betrayal. When Esther Thorel, wife of a master silk weaver, rescues Sara Kemp from a brothel, she thinks she is doing God's will, but her good deed is not returned. Sara quickly realizes that the Thorel household is built on...
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"For readers of Hamnet, Circe--and Dracula--comes a propulsive, fictional, feminist reimagining of the real story of Erzsébet Báthory, the infamous 'Blood Countess' who was rumored to have murdered and bathed in the blood of hundreds of peasant girls"--