The American Heiress Contributor(s): Goodwin, Daisy (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312658664 ISBN-13: 9780312658663 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Romance - Historical - General - Fiction | Women - Fiction | Historical - General |
Dewey: FIC |
Physical Information: 1.36" H x 5.51" W x 8.24" (0.95 lbs) 496 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Anyone suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms (who isn't?) will find an instant tonic in Daisy Goodwin's The American Heiress. The story of Cora Cash, an American heiress in the 1890s who bags an English duke, this is a deliciously evocative first novel that lingers in the mind. --Allison Pearson, New York Times bestselling author of I Don't Know How She Does It and I Think I Love You |
Contributor Bio(s): Goodwin, Daisy: - DAISY GOODWIN is the author of the New York Times bestselling novels The American Heiress and The Fortune Hunter. She attended Columbia University's film school as a Harkness scholar after earning a degree in history at Cambridge University, and was Chair of the judging panel of the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction. She is the screenwriter and executive producer of the PBS/Masterpiece drama Victoria. She lives in London. |