Her surrounding influenced her first projects living in Gothic fortress completed with gargoyles and leaded windows. Lauren interest in writing grew stronger where she combined her ideas to write sonnet sequences in between her studies, Willig leadership role began when she became the chair of Tory party, with all the responsibility of the Yale political union on her hand she squeezed her time to read more of Shakespeare. She attended The Chapin School and later joined Yale University where she majored in political science and Renaissance studies.
THE SUMMER COUNTRY will beguile readers with its rendering of families, heartbreak, and the endurance of hope against all odds.Lauren Willig is a New York Times and award-winning bestselling author of fictional historical novels, her work focus on early romances and it has earned her spot among bestselling authers.īorn on 28 March of 1977, Willig discovered historical romance fiction at the age of six while searching for her favorite book from her idol Eleanor of Aquitaine. Why would her practical-minded grandfather leave her a property in ruins? Why are the neighboring plantation owners, the Davenants, so eager to acquire Peverills? The answer lies in the past- a tangled history of lies, greed, clandestine love, heartbreaking betrayal, and a bold bid for freedom. Rumors swirl around the derelict plantation people whisper of ghosts. When Emily accompanies her cousin and his new wife to Barbados, she finds Peverills a burnt-out shell, reduced to ruins in 1816, when a rising of enslaved people sent the island up in flames. But when her grandfather dies, Emily receives an unexpected inheritance: Peverills, a sugar plantation in Barbados-a plantation her grandfather never told anyone he owned.
Everyone knows that the family's lucrative shipping business will go to her cousin, Adam, one day. "Tense, atmospheric, and gorgeously written, The Summer Country is a novel to savor!" – Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Huntress and The Alice NetworkĪ brilliant, multigenerational saga in the tradition of The Thorn Birds and North and South, New York Times bestselling historical novelist Lauren Willig delivers her biggest, boldest, and most ambitious novel yet-a sweeping Victorian epic of lost love, lies, jealousy, and rebellion set in colonial Barbados.īarbados, 1854: Emily Dawson has always been the poor cousin in a prosperous English merchant clan- merely a vicar's daughter, and a reform-minded vicar's daughter, at that.
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