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Savannah by Eugenia Price
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Savannah (original 1983; edition 2013)

by Eugenia Price

Series: Savannah Quartet (1)

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"Orphaned Mark Browning was only twenty when he renounced his father's fortune and sailed to Savannah, his mother's birthplace. and the home of two remarkable women. The first is Eliza McQueen Mackay, his mentor's beautiful wife, whom Mark loves with a deep, pure love that can never be spoken. The other is lovely young Caroline Cameron, whose life is blighted by a secret that has tormented her grandparents for half a century--a secret that affects Mark more closely than he imagines. Desiring one woman, loved by another, Mark must confront the ghosts of a previous generation, and face the evil smoldering hate, before he can truly call Savannah his home. "--… (more)
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Title:Savannah
Authors:Eugenia Price
Info:Turner (2013), Edition: Reprint, Paperback, 600 pages
Collections:Your library, Reviewed
Rating:****
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Savannah by Eugenia Price (1983)

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I adored this book since I read it when I was getting into genealogy and was learning about my ancestors who settled coastall carolina/Georgia back in the day. ( )
  Kim.Sasso | Aug 27, 2023 |
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  WBCLIB | Feb 19, 2023 |
The quartet gets off to a good start with this first book. It didn't take me long to get all caught up in the story of Mark Browning, Robert and Eliza Mackay, Caroline Cameron, and all the secondary characters that held my attention as much as the main ones.

Eugenia Price often combined truth with fiction in her novels, using actual people and telling their true story, while embellishing a bit here and there, but still sticking to facts. Then, she'd add fictional characters into the midst, her skill as an author keeping it from feeling phony or uneven, until it seems as though they really were a part of Savannah history, too.

That's how I felt about Mark Browning, since his story was told without a lot of drama and contrived situations, nothing that couldn't have happened to an actual person. You could actually find yourself doing an online search for a biography, before remembering there won't be one.

As with many historical novels, there's romance involved, but again, it's not overdone. Mark finds the road to true love, but not before his misguided heart takes him in the wrong direction. There's drama, but without the melodrama.

I won't say anything to give away the story, but I just want to warn that, where the characters are actual people, fiction mirrors fact, so if they suffered a tragic fate in real life, the same will happen in the book. You wouldn't read a novel about Lincoln and expect a different outcome at Ford's Theatre; the same goes for any of Ms. Price's novels that involve real people.

You'll get some knowledge of Savannah history, so you don't have to feel you're just killing time by reading this; well worth the time. ( )
  EmeraldAngel | Jun 3, 2021 |
I adored this book since I read it when I was getting into genealogy and was learning about my ancestors who settled coastall carolina/Georgia back in the day. ( )
  Kim_Sasso | Mar 14, 2018 |
long epic novel about a young man's early years in Savannah in the early 1800's ( )
  nancynova | Sep 12, 2015 |
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Hands gripping the rail of the plunging schooner Eliza, young Mark Browning, his well-tailored clothes wet and rumpled, stood on deck alone, determined not to be sick.
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"Orphaned Mark Browning was only twenty when he renounced his father's fortune and sailed to Savannah, his mother's birthplace. and the home of two remarkable women. The first is Eliza McQueen Mackay, his mentor's beautiful wife, whom Mark loves with a deep, pure love that can never be spoken. The other is lovely young Caroline Cameron, whose life is blighted by a secret that has tormented her grandparents for half a century--a secret that affects Mark more closely than he imagines. Desiring one woman, loved by another, Mark must confront the ghosts of a previous generation, and face the evil smoldering hate, before he can truly call Savannah his home. "--

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THe only home he has ever wanted is a place he has never been-the place of his mother's birth...and of his father's remembered dreams. From the deck of the schooner, a young man of privilege watched Savannah emerge on the horizon that fateful day in the spring of 1812, never imagining it held secrets to both his past and future. That the burgeoning Southern port would be so intricately tied to his own expanding fortune. That there he would become involved in the intrigue of war...and torn between his love for two women. That in Savannah he would ultimately learn the the measure of his own courage and worth. Once again Eugenia Price blends historical observation with masterful storytelling in a bountiful novel that sweeps readers into the passions and splendor of nineteenth century Georgia. (Book Club Edition)
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