Moonraker's Bride
Moonraker's Bride, written by Peter O' Donnell under the pseudonym Madeleine Brent. "Born in a Mission in China, Lucy Waring finds herself with fifteen small children to feed and care for. The way she tackles this task leads to her being thrown into the grim prison of Chengfu, where she meets...
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Moonraker's Bride, written by Peter O' Donnell under the pseudonym Madeleine Brent. "Born in a Mission in China, Lucy Waring finds herself with fifteen small children to feed and care for. The way she tackles this task leads to her being thrown into the grim prison of Chengfu, where she meets Nicholas Sabine - a man about to die. He asks her a cryptic riddle, the mystery of which echoes through all that befalls her in the months that follow... She is brought to England and tries to make a new life with the Gresham family, but she is constantly in disgrace and is soon involved in the bitter feud between the Greshams and a neighboring family. There is danger, romance and heartache for Lucy as strange events build to a point where she begins to doubt her own senses. How could she see a man, long dead, walking in the misty darkness of the valley? And who carried her, unconscious, into the labyrinth of Chiselhurst Caves and left her to die? It is not until she returns to China that Lucy finds, amid high adventure, the answer to all that has baffled her."
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780385064453 (0385064454)
Publish date: September 1st 1973
Publisher: Doubleday and Company
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Novels,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Mystery,
Historical Romance,
China,
Gothic,
Romantic Suspense,
Gothic Romance
Trust Madeleine Brent to have the reader hook at the first line. It has all the elements of a Gothic I love to read (and the kind that is so hard to find nowadays). A young, brave English girl, who seems to be alone in the world and goes to live in a Manor and whose life is constantly in danger, mos...
Trust Madeleine Brent to have the reader hook at the first line. It has all the elements of a Gothic I love to read (and the kind that is so hard to find nowadays). A young, brave English girl, who seems to be alone in the world and goes to live in a Manor and whose life is constantly in danger, mos...
I have no idea if this was a well-written book or not, but nearly 40 years after I first read it (I was about 13 yrs old) it has stayed with me - therefore the 4 stars.
Lucy Waring, an orphan living in a Chinese mission, is the only one who can take care of the fifteen children living with her. In order to provide food, she's forced to steal, for which she ends up in the prison, where she meets Nicholas Sabine, a man with only a few hours to live, his execution is ...
it was a lovely read and though it came highly recommended by teresa and i was still didn't expect to like it so much and for it to be such a lovely tale and written in such a simple and enticing manner (so thanks again!!!) and and i'm off to force it on hengameh!