From the bestselling author of The Other Boleyn Girl.
.Bristol in 1787 is booming, from its stinking docks to its elegant new houses. Josiah Cole, a small dockside trader, is prepared to gamble everything to join the big players of the city. But he needs ready cash and a well-connected wife.
An arranged marriage to Frances Scott is a mutually convenient solution. Trading her social contacts for Josiah's protection, Frances enters the world of the Bristol merchants and finds her life and fortune dependent on the respectable trade of sugar, rum and slaves.
Once again Philippa Gregory brings her unique combination of a vivid sense of history and inimitable storytelling skills to illuminate a complex period of our past. Powerful, haunting, intensely disturbing, this is a novel of desire and shame, of individuals, of a society, and of a whole continent devastated by the greed of others.
Philippa Gregory, the Sunday Times bestselling author, invites you to step into the world of historical fiction, where romance intertwines with the thrill of a gamble. This top bestseller will take you on a journey through the respectable trade of sugar, rum, and slaves in 1787 Bristol.
For fans of Alison Weir (Henry VIII), Elizabeth Chadwick (The Summer Queen), Carol Mcgrath (The Silken Rose), Tracy Borman (The Devil's Slave), and Ken Follett (A Column of Fire).