by Philippa Gregory · HarperCollins · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007230020
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«The Favoured Child» is the historical novel by Philippa Gregory, published by HarperCollins in paperback (640 pages, in English).
In the eighteenth century, the Wideacre estate is bankrupt and the villagers live in poverty. Two children raised at the Dower House compete for the Lacey inheritance, bound by a secret engagement that prevents them from marrying. Only one of them will be Beatrice Lacey's chosen one and receive the gift of understanding the land that would make Sussex green again.
Second installment of the Wideacre Trilogy, which began with Wideacre and concluded with Meridon. The work was originally published in 1989.
For readers of historical fiction and period romance who enjoy family sagas with inheritances at stake.
Philippa Gregory is an English historical novelist who has been publishing since 1987. The best known of her works is The Other Boleyn Girl (2001), which in 2002 won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award from the Romantic Novelists' Association and has been adapted into two films.
