by Joan Aiken · Diogenes · tapa dura · ISBN 9783257018387
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«Fanny und Scylla oder Die zweite Frau» is the historical novel by Joan Aiken, published by Diogenes in hardcover (696 pages, in German).
Set in Regency England, the novel follows Fanny and Scylla, two very different women whose fates intertwine. Amid family secrets and deceptions, both clash with the limitations their era imposes on women and face moral dilemmas that test their convictions.
Second installment of the Paget Family saga. German translation of «The Weeping Ash», a novel originally published in 1980; this edition is from 1990.
For readers of historical and period romance fiction, with an interest in the English Regency and gothic stories with female protagonists.
Joan Delano Aiken was an English writer specialising in supernatural fiction and children's alternative history novels. In 1999 she was awarded an MBE for her services to children's literature. For The Whispering Mountain, published by Jonathan Cape in 1968, she won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a book award judged by a panel of British children's writers, and she was a commended runner-up for the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British writer. She won an Edgar Allan Poe Award (1972) for Night Fall.
