THE NEWEST York Times bestselling historical novelist delivers her biggest, boldest, & most ambitious novel yet-a sweeping Victorian epic of dropped love, lies, jealousy, and rebellion set in colonial Barbados.

Barbados, 1854: Emily Dawson is definitely the indegent cousin in a prosperous English product owner clan– merely a vicar’s daughter, and a reform-minded vicar’s little girl, at that. Everyone understands the family’s lucrative delivery business will head to her cousin, Adam, 1 day. & about The Summer Country: A Novel nbsp;But when her grandfather dies, Emily receives an unexpected inheritance: Peverills, a glucose plantation in Barbados-a plantation her grandfather hardly ever told anyone he owned.

When Emily accompanies her cousin and his fresh wife to Barbados, she sees Peverills a burnt-out shell, reduced to ruins in 1816, when a rising of enslaved people sent the island up in flames. Rumours swirl across the derelict plantation; people whisper of ghosts.

Why would her practical-minded grandfather keep her a property in ruins? Why will be the neighboring plantation owners, the Davenants, therefore eager to acquire Peverills? The response lies in the past- a tangled history of lies, greed, clandestine love, heartbreaking betrayal, and a vibrant bid for independence.

An excellent, multigenerational saga in the tradition from the THORN BIRDS and NORTH AND SOUTH, THE SUMMER COUNTRY will beguile readers with its making of family members, heartbreak, as well as the endurance of hope against all odds.