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WideacrePhilippa Gregory

Wideacre

591 pagesFirst published 19875 editions
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Editorial Reviews Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly Gregory's full-blown first novel is a marvelously assured period piece, an English gothic with narrative verve. Beatrice Lacey loves nothing more than the family estate, Wideacrenot her bluff, hearty father, her weak brother, Harry, or her mother, who can't quite believe mounting evidence that damns her passionate daughter. Foiled in her hunger to own the estate by the 18th century laws of entail, Beatrice plots her father's death, knowing she can twist Harry in any direction she chooses, for her brother harbors a dark, perverted…

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Editions

5 in Spinefolk
FormatPublisherYearPagesISBN
PaperbackSimon and Schuster20036489780743249294
PaperbackPocket Books1988—9780671649036
EditionSimon and Schuster19875569780671634629
EditionPenguin Books19876229780140098228
EditionViking19875609780670815340
Country homesAdministration of estatesGothicInheritance and successionFictionWomenEngland, fictionFiction, historical, general