Not Yet Drown'd: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.24 (964 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393065464 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-27 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Luxurious and Tasteful When one of my fellow book club members told me that everyone in the club was struggling with reading this book, I was kind of alarmed. I had too many other books piled up and I didn't want to be stuck with a dud of a book.To my relief, it is one of the better fiction that I've read this year. It helped that I had a big chunk of time to devote to it since it is a slower-paced book, but it is so fascinating. It is so luxurious and tasteful. It is a long smooth ride into t. "Flows like fine tea" according to Daniel A. Scott. This book is slow. It presents lots of different, interesting, and unique information on a variety of different subjects that were of interest in the 1800's. The author obviously spent lots of time researching and adding these fine little details into the story at appropriate places. The story itself was well written and ended just as well. But it took forever to get to that end. The author just kept the book interesting enough to go on to the next chapter. I almost gave. A terrific rad kjkstar A fascinating and compelling read. Great characters. Superb writing. Tremendous cultural and historical detail. This book deserves a large and enthusiastic readership.
A mysterious parcel propels a young Scottish widow on a perilous quest to the far side of the world. Catherine MacDonald is astonished to receive from her twin brotherwho had reportedly drowned a year earlier, in the monsoon floods of 1821a kashmiri shawl, a caddy of unusual tea, and a sheaf of traditional bagpipe music in his handwriting. And as they copy, translate, and finally understand certain Scottish and Indian paintings and music, they discover unsuspected truths about the man they are seeking.This luminous and accomplished romance is the author's first novel.. In the course of their journey they meet botanists, smugglers, engineers, soldiers, and artistsas well as love and betrayal. With her stepdaughter and their two maidsone an enigmatic Hindu, the other a runaway American slaveshe follows an obscure trail of tea, opium, and bagpipe music. When had he sent it? And why had he retitled a certain tune "Not Yet Drown'd"?Irresistibly, Catherine is drawn to India to search for answers
Peg Kingman is the author of Not Yet Drown’d and Original Sins. . Formerly a tea merchant and a technical writer, she lives in northern California
All rights reserved. Though things move slowly, Kingman renders period detail-tea figures largely-with attentive care. From Publishers Weekly Kingman's stately debut historical stars Catherine MacDonald, a young widow in 1822 Edinburgh who is left with the care of Grace, the child from her husband's previous marriage. Just before she is unexpectedly visited by a representative of Grace's uncle, who wishes to take Grace to relatives in Virginia, Catherine receives a mysterious package from her twin brother, who reportedly drowned the previous year in India, containing tea, a fine shawl, and a sheaf of bagpipe music including a tune tantalizingly retitled "Not Yet Drown'd." Circumstances seem designed to compel Catherine to