Whispering
by Jane Aiken Hodge
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Fiction. Romance. HTML:When Caterina Gomez returns to her beloved home of Oporto, Portugal, her troubles have only just begun. The country is at war with France and, even though Oporto is no longer in French hands, it is a shadow of its former self. The scandalous cloud that Caterina left under is still not forgotten, and her cruel and distant father insists on a hasty marriage or the convent. Half English and half Portuguese, she must walk a fine line between both societies, which is all show more made near impossible considering her troubled past.Thankfully, her dear friend Miss Harriet Brown and cousin Jeremy Craddock have accompanied her from England. But Harriet can only offer comfort whilst sharing in her fate, and Jeremy, who is seeking treatment for his ill health, becomes distracted by his fair and pretty healer. Then Caterina's past resurfaces in a most confusing manner in the shape of Luiz, her childhood sweetheart, drawing her further into the tangles of political intrigue. Romantic as the adventure is, Caterina must try to keep a cool head in order to find out quickly those who can be trusted, and those who are not what they appear. For she has a secret, one that must be guarded at all costs...
Whispering, first published in 1995, is another great historical romance from the master of the genre – Jane Aiken Hodge. show less
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It is a story about Caterina Gomez who is half English, half Portuguese. She is summoned to Portugal by her father during uneasy times where tension is rife between Portugal, France and England. She arrives to a frustrating choice of marriage or convent; however, she gets entangled in intrigue and is drawn further into a web of uneasy alliances between the native Portuguese and English communities. It is a story about Caterina coming to age and finding what matters to a woman most - freedom - in the most troubling of times.
I would highly recommend this book as a historical novel, as the characters are meshed in very real history and at the end of the book, not only have you had the satisfaction of reading a good book, you also have show more learnt something about Portuguese history (if you didn’t know it already!) show less
I would highly recommend this book as a historical novel, as the characters are meshed in very real history and at the end of the book, not only have you had the satisfaction of reading a good book, you also have show more learnt something about Portuguese history (if you didn’t know it already!) show less
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Jane Aiken Hodge was born near Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Decmber 4, 1917. Her father was the Pulitzer prize-winning poet, Conrad Aiken. She attended Oxford University and Radcliff College. She wrote about 30 suspense novels and historical novels. She was a longtime believer in the right of people to end their own lives. In 2009 she chose to do show more this to the shock of her two grown daughters. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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