The Turquoise

@2@@20@The spellbinding@21@ @20@story of a gifted woman who leaves the magic mountains of her native New Mexico for the chaotic New York of the 1870s. @21@@20@'To read Seton is to enter into another time with such conviction that it seems as real as the present' (Philippa Gregory) @21@@3@@2@Santa Fe Cameron, named for the place of her birth, is the child of a Spanish mother and a Scotch father and inherited from both a high degree of psychic ability. A Native American medicine man senses this and gives the little orphan a turquoise amulet as a keepsake; this turquoise, the Navajo symbol of the spirit, dominates her life. @3@@2@For Fey, life is made up of violent contrasts: the rough wagon of the young Irishman who brings her East and the scented hansom cabs and carriages waiting before her own Fifth Avenue mansion; the glittering world of the Astor family and a dreary cell in The Tombs prison. @3@@2@All the rich period detail which characterises Anya Seton's novels is here, together with one of her most unusual heroines.@3@

Product details

• Authors: Anya Seton, Seton Anya
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 22.05.2014
• EAN: 9781444788303
• ISBN: 978-1-4447-8830-3
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 196 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Historical novels and narratives; FICTION / Romance / Historical / General, FICTION / Romance / Historical / American