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The Wedding Gift
Marlen Suyapa Bodden
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Description for The Wedding Gift
Paperback. When wealthy plantation owner Cornelius Allen marries off his daughter Clarissa, he presents her with a wedding gift: a young slave woman called Sarah. The two girls have grown up together but their lives could not have been more different. Clarissa is white and is used to a life of privilege and ease. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 26. Weight in Grams: 296.
'Bodden's absorbing page-turner maintains its suspense right up to the final pages.' Sunday Express
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Sarah Campbell has always known she was different.
A slave at Allen Estates, Alabama, and the illegitimate daughter of the plantation owner Mr Allen, she's used to the other children's jibes, her mother's night-time trips to Mr Allen and, to her delight, her furtive literacy lessons with her white half-sister Clarissa.
Slowly, using her forbidden knowledge of reading and writing, Sarah plots an escape to the north and freedom. But Sarah's life is turned upside-down when she learns she will ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cornerstone
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099579984
SKU
V9780099579984
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-3
About Marlen Suyapa Bodden
Marlen Suyapa Bodden is a lawyer at The Legal Aid Society in New York City - the nation's oldest law firm for low-wage and immigrant workers - and an anti-war, anti-slavery, and anti-death penalty activist. She drew on her knowledge of modern and historical human rights abuses to write The Wedding Gift, her first novel and an international Wall Street ... Read more
Reviews for The Wedding Gift
Bodden’s absorbing page-turner maintains its suspense right up to the final pages, when there’s one last surprise for those hoping for a happy ending.
Sunday Express
A powerful and engaging tale of slavery, passion and the quest for freedom.
www.candis.co.uk
Stunning debut...Bodden weaves a page-turning tangled web of misogyny, greed, scandal and violence in this powerful ... Read more
Sunday Express
A powerful and engaging tale of slavery, passion and the quest for freedom.
www.candis.co.uk
Stunning debut...Bodden weaves a page-turning tangled web of misogyny, greed, scandal and violence in this powerful ... Read more