Nightingale's Song (Beautiful Dead)

Nightingale's Song (Beautiful Dead)

by KatePennington (Author)

Synopsis

The setting is Whitby in the mid 1700s...Maggie Nightingale spends her evenings singing in her father's tavern, the Anchor Inn, on the rugged east Yorkshire coastline. The inn is a haunt for local ruffians, thieves and smugglers, and Maggie overhears many a dark plan hatched over ale at night. She never imagined that such plans could threaten her very existence, and see her wrongly accused of murder. Togther with notorious smuggling villain, Thomas Hague, Maggie's only escape from public hanging comes in the form of a ship bound for America. The New World. but will the shadow of death follow Maggie Nightingale across the ocean, and haunt her for the rest of her life?

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 242
Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
Published: 19 Oct 2006

ISBN 10: 0340878754
ISBN 13: 9780340878750
Children’s book age: 12+ Years

Media Reviews
Those who enjoy period fiction will find this a good read. Publishers Weekly on Brief Candle
Author Bio
Kate Pennington is a pseudonym for a very successful, million-selling author. She has chosen to publish with a different name because her new work is a major departure from her established work to date - as she writes about favourite, and much loved, areas of history and literature `which formed the backbone to her post-graduate studies in literature`.