Green Darkness

Green Darkness

by Anya Seton (Author)

Synopsis

1552. Fifteen years after Henry VIII's brutal reformation of the monasteries, Catholics in England still live in fear. When thirteen-year-old Celia da Bohun first meets Stephen Marsdon, a young Catholic priest, protestant Edward VI has been on the throne for five years. Reluctantly, Stephen agrees to be her teacher but as Celia grows older, her girlish adoration of him and his affection for her deepens into a passionate love that will not be extinguished - even by her violent death. 400 years later, history seems poised to repeat itself. Not long after the marriage of Richard Marsdon and his American wife Celia, something seems to go terribly wrong between them. It is only when Celia is forced to look deep in to the past that she has a chance to prevent another tragedy ...

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 576
Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
Published: 28 Jun 2007

ISBN 10: 0340921099
ISBN 13: 9780340921098
Book Overview: Tudor England brought to life in all its glory and bloodthirstiness, now packaged as one of Hodder's 'Great Reads'

Media Reviews
Her most intriguing and ambitious novel . . . an exciting and suspenseful story * Liverpool Post *
Perhaps the greatest gifts Anya Seton brings to her historical novels are the zest of her narrative, the life she breathes into the most insignificant characters and the atmosphere of the era she evokes around them. * Books and Bookmen *
To read Seton is to enter into another time with such conviction that it seems as real as the present * Philippa Gregory *
Seductive, atmospheric, intriguing, GREEN DARKNESS is one of those classic novels you come back to time and again. * Kate Mosse *
'Wonderful historical novels' * Alison Weir *
Author Bio
Anya Seton was born in New York City and grew up on her father`s large estate in Cos Cob and Greenwich, Connecticut, where visiting Indians taught her Indian dancing and woodcraft. One Sioux chief called her Anutika, which means 'cloud grey eyes', a name which the family shortened to Anya. She was educated by governesses, and then travelled abroad, first to England, then to France where she hoped to become a doctor. She studied for a while at the Hotel Dieu hospital in Paris before marrying at eighteen and having three children. She began writing in 1938 with a short story sold to a newspaper syndicate and the first of her ten novels was published in 1941. Her other novels include GREEN DARKNESS, THE WINTHROP WOMAN and AVALON. She died in 1990.