- Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: Pan; New Ed edition (7 Jan 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0330372653
- ISBN-13: 978-0330372657
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,486,329 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The aftermath of revolution is usually a time of disillusion, when hard- faced men turn out to have done well from betrayed promises and shattered dreams. The last of Margaret Lawrence's historical detection trilogy about midwife Hannah takes place in the hard winter of 1786--the financial crises of the new American republic are forcing poor farmers into debtors' prison and insurrection is in the air. Hannah is about to marry Daniel Josselyn, captain of the local militia, and finds herself charged with malpractice by Clinch, a doctor close to Daniel's political enemies. And then Clinch is found shot dead in the forest...
Hannah, fond of her independence and worried for the future of her mute daughter Jennet, is a strong protagonist and Daniel, tormented by half- remembered tragedies of the Revolution, is almost equally attractive. Lawrence writes well and realistically about the lives of ordinary men and women in a period too often mythologized--murder takes place against a background of political business-as-usual, and among men and women driven to desperation. Weaver's patterns and apothecary's recipes take their place alongside account books and military strategies as clues in a complex web of deceit and betrayals; Lawrence wears her feminism and radicalism quietly, but intensely.--Roz Kaveney --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The third novel in Margaret Lawrence's critically acclaimed and captivating historical trilogy.
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Format:Hardcover
After reading Hearts and Bones and Blood Red Roses by Margaret Lawrence I couldn't resist spending a few extra dollars on the hardback edition of The Burning Bride. I wasn't disappointed.
This is an incredible series set a few years after the Revolutionary War in Maine. The story centers around Hanna Trevor, the local mid-wife, her lover Daniel Josselyn and their daughter, Jennett.
In each book the story becomes more complex and the characters are more interesting. The series is about life after the Revolutionary War and how everything wasn't the picture perfect life everybody thought it to be. Greed, debtors prison, taxes, murder, treason, audultery, rape, prostitution and love are all intertrined in this incredible story. Ms. Lawrence has outdone herself.
I definetly recommend starting with the first of the series.
Format:Hardcover
These three books are a must-read for anyone interested in the post revolutionary period. Beautifully written, unusual in form, with wonderful characterizations: Lawrence succeeds where so many don't even try to make us understand the women of this time and place. There is a love story (although I would disagree with the reviewer -- it is not steamy, but simply evocative, and touching), and there are mysteries, and both of them are wonderfully done but these novels are more than the sum of their parts. Lawrence draws on the life of Hannah Trevor, a midwife who lived in Maine during this period, and in doing so she brings that resonant and important voice back to life.
Format:Hardcover
In 1786, the townsfolk of Rufford, Maine are having their annual military celebration. Not everyone is happy with the event as some British loyalists still smart over the independence of the former colonies. However, this year the event does not go off as planned because the body of Samuel Clinch, the town's so-called surgeon (he was trained as a barber), is found with a bullet to his head and chest, and his feet are burned. In spite of being four-months pregnant, Hannah is a prime suspect because she publicly ripped the deceased over his child birthing techniques.
Things turn worse when a member of the General Court is found murdered in the presence of the militia. Their leader, Hannah's lover, Daniel is the person held responsible. Though they finally marry, Hannah has a new cause: to uncover the identity of the culprit if she ever wants to live with the man she loves.
The third novel in the Trevor amateur sleuth mysteries, THE BURNING BRIDE, is a great early Americana fiction. Though the post war troubles of the residents of Maine are brilliantly scribed by Margaret Lawrence, this at time overwhelms the who-done-it. Hannah and her support cast remain wonderful characters, whose emotions and motivations periodically explode to the surface, adding dimension to the plot. Though the mystery is weaker than the previous two novels (HEARTS AND BONES, and BLOOD RED ROSES), the book remains a top rate period piece that is worth reading by fans of historical mysteries.
Harriet Klausner
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