Wideacre
Edition: 1st Touchstone edition
Series: Wideacre Trilogy
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: July 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 648
ISBN-13: 9780743249294
Copyright date: 1987
Subjects: Inheritance and succession -- Fiction; Administration of estates -- Fiction; Country homes -- Fiction; Women -- Fiction; Sussex (England) -- Fiction; Georgian period (1714-1830) -- Fiction; Romance
Genres: Fiction.
First sentence: Wideacre Hall faces due south and the sun shines all day on the yellow stone till it is warm and powdery to the touch.
Description: Beatrice Lacey, strong-minded and amoral, refuses to conform to the limited life of a lady of the eighteenth century.  Destined to lose her family name and beloved Wideacre estate on marriage, she decides to take her destiny into her own hands.  Seduction, betrayal, even murder--Beatrice's passion is without apology or conscience.  "She is a Lacey of Wideacre," her father warns,"and whatever she does, however she behaves, will always be fitting." Yet even as Beatrice's scheming seems about to triumph, she is haunted by the one person who knows the extent of her plans...and her capacity for evil.
Notes: Book 1