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Sugar Island

Sanjida O'connell

On tour in America in 1859, Emily Harris, a young English actress at the height of her fame, meets and marries the charming Charles Earl Brook. But Charles has kept a terrible secret: he is a slave-owner, master of a plantation in which seven hundred men, women and children live in abject poverty. Forced to accompany her husband south, Emily's attempts to help the slaves put her in great danger. And when civil war breaks out, she realises she stands to lose everything she has ever loved.

Set against the brilliantly realised backdrop of the American Civil War in the heart of the deep south, Sugar Island is a story of love and loss in a time of chaos.

  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : MAR 1, 2012
  • Imprint : John Murray
  • Page Extent : 352
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781848540408
  • Price : INR 575
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Sanjida O'connell

Sanjida O'Connell is a TV presenter and producerilms. She is the author of five previous books two novels Theory of Mind and Angel Bird written in her early twenties and three works of non-fiction Mindreading: How we Learn to Love and Lie Sugar: The Grass that Changed the World and Nature's Calendar. She also has a PhD in Theory of Mind.

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