Billie's Kiss
juny del 2013 · Victoria University Press
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With an Edwardian twist on The Tempest, and surprising, earthy, and magical qualities, this irresistible novel is set on the remote, divided Scottish island of Kissack and Skilling, one half of which looks historically and geographically towards Catholic Ireland, the other toward the Protestant north and Scandinavia. In the spring of 1903 a ship explodes as it docks on the island, drowning many of the passengers and crew in the icy waters of Stolnsay harbor. Young, strawberry-blonde-haired Billie Paxton is among the only survivors. Clumsy, illiterate, and suddenly alone, Billie will not say why, before the explosion, she jumped from ship to shore, and so falls under the immediate suspicion of her fellow passenger, Murdo Hesketh, and his cousin and employer, Lord Hallowhulme, who owns the island—and has controversial plans for improving the lives of its inhabitants. Gloriously inventive and vividly atmospheric, Billie’s Kiss conjures up a way of life hurtling toward a brave new world in an enchanting novel that brings together murder and eugenics, progress, prejudice, and the loss of innocence.
With an Edwardian twist on The Tempest, and surprising, earthy, and magical qualities, this irresistible novel is set on the remote, divided Scottish island of Kissack and Skilling, one half of which looks historically and geographically towards Catholic Ireland, the other toward the Protestant n...
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Elizabeth Knox is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning novelist whose work has been published in more than six languages. Her best-known novel, The Vintner’s Luck, won numerous awards, including the Deutz Medal for Fiction at the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, and the Tasmania Pacific Region Prize. In 2002 she was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM).
Elizabeth Knox is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning novelist whose work has been published in more than six languages. Her best-known novel, The Vintner’s Luck, won numerous awards, including the Deutz Medal for Fiction at the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, and the Tasmania Pacific Re...
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