A Corruptible Crown by Gillian Bradshaw
It is 1648, and the Civil War, which an exhausted nation had believed over, has been resurrected by a king still determined to be an absolute ruler, and a parliament unable to agree how to govern without him. Blacksmith Jamie Hudson is weary and disillusioned but faces prison if he refuses to re-enlist in the army, and so he is hauled ruthlessly around England as the blood continues to flow. Meanwhile, Jamie's wife Lucy is struggling to survive as a lone woman in London, while working to support the Leveller demands for democracy and freedom. As their lives carry them apart, the two hope desperately for a peace that will finally allow them to be together again.Gillian Bradshaw's father, an Associated Press reporter from the United States, met her mother, a British embassy private secretary, in Rio de Janeiro. She was the second of four children born in Washington, DC, in 1956. With such a strong start, they didn't travel around quite as much as one might expect: Washington was followed by Santiago, Chile, and two places in Michigan. Gillian received her BA in English and another in Classical Greek from the University of Michigan, and her first novel, Hawk of May, won the Hopwood Award for fiction. She went on to Newnham College, Cambridge University, England, to pursue a degree in Greek and Latin literature, and while studying for exams, she sold her first novel. She decided to continue in Cambridge for another year to write another novel and consider what she wanted to do for a Real Career.
But, she learned she could live on her novelist's salary and met her husband, who was working on his doctorate in physics, while she was there. She never got a Real Job because of her books and children, and she's been writing novels ever since. Her spouse and she now reside in Coventry. They have a dog and four children.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780727880215 |
| ISBN 10 | 0727880217 |
| Title | A Corruptible Crown |
| Author | Gillian Bradshaw |
| Series | English Civil War Novel Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Canongate Books |
| Year published | 2011-03-08 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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