by Patrick McGrath · Bompiani · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788845254420
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«Martha Peake» is a historical novel by Patrick McGrath, published by Bompiani in paperback (372 pages, in Italian).
Set in eighteenth-century London, it follows Harry Peake, a poet and smuggler disfigured after a fire in which his wife Grace dies. His daughter Martha, fearing for her life, flees to the American colonies; there she becomes involved in the rebellion and a web of betrayals, unable to escape the past until a final act of courage.
This edition belongs to the Tascabili. Best Seller collection, with an Italian translation by Annamaria Raffo. Original title: «Martha Peake: A Novel of the Revolution».
Recommended for readers of historical and gothic fiction, as well as for followers of «Follia».
Patrick McGrath is a British novelist, whose work has been categorised as gothic fiction.
