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FICTION
416 Pages, 5 1/4 x 8
Formats: Trade Paper
Trade Paper, $19.99 (US $19.99) (CA $26.99)
Publication Date: December 2008
ISBN 9781556527876
Rights: WOR
Chicago Review Press (Dec 2008)
Bringing to life the heady days of the American Revolution through the eyes of a heroine who played a brave and dramatic part in the conflict, this novel follows Celia Garth, a Charleston native, as she transforms from a fashionable dressmaker to a patriot spy. When the king's army captures Charleston and sweeps through the Carolina countryside in a wave of blood, fire, and debauchery, the rebel cause seems all but lost. But when Francis Marion, a lieutenant colonel in the Continental Army known as "The Swamp Fox," recruits Celia as a spy, the tides of war begin to shift. This classic historical novel captures the fervor of 18th-century Charleston, the American Revolution, and a woman who risked her life for the patriot cause.
“Historical romance with all the thrills . . . it also gives a vivid sense of the historical personages and events of the time. . . . Gwen Bristow is a skillful story-teller.” --New York Herald Tribune Book Review
“If ever a book had ‘best seller’ corpuscles in its blood this is it. . . . It is an exciting tale of love and war. . . . The novel is in the tradition of Gone with the Wind--filled with throbbing details of each day’s terrors, thrills, threats and, when they came, triumphs. . . . The kind of story that keeps readers tingling.” —Fanny Butcher, Chicago Tribune
"Rebel blue, Tory green, and King George’s hated red flash brightly through this embattled tale of Gwen Bristow’s native South Carolina . . . Miss Bristow uses thrills, surprise, and melodrama to personalize the Revolution and impart a tingling sense of shared experience in this book . . . the author of This Side of Glory and Jubilee Trail is once again at the top of her form." —The New York Times
"Absorbing and swift-paced, well-written . . . the situations are historically authentic, the characterizations rigorous, well-formed, and definite. The ‘you-are-thereness’ is complete." —The Christian Science Monitor