![]() In 1812, Charles Davenant returns from England in the wake of his father's death to take up the reins of Peverills. ![]() Davenant, who clearly wants to make a match between her grandson, George, and Emily. Determining to learn all about the plantation, she ends up staying at Beckles, a neighboring plantation, run with an iron fist by the assertive and intimidating Mrs. She cannot think why she's inherited Peverills, especially when she discovers that it's in ruins, having been burned in Bussa's Rebellion in 1816. Adam's father (and by extension Adam) inherited the family's lucrative shipping business while Emily, a favorite of her grandfather, has been left a previously unmentioned sugar plantation on Barbados. ![]() In 1854, Emily Dawson travels from England to Barbados with her cousin Adam and his wife so that she can look into the mysterious inheritance her grandfather has left her. In Lauren Willig's newest novel, The Summer Country, the secrets of the past change history in a very personal way. This is true on a grand scale, but it can also be true on a much smaller, more personal scale as well. ![]() We might think we know many things from history but more has been forgotten or hidden than has ever been written down, giving us an incomplete knowledge of actual people and events of the past. ![]()
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