Hosts of Rebecca: The Mortymer Trilogy Book Two
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It is the time of the Rebecca Riots when economic turmoil and unjust taxes have left the communities of south Wales in dire poverty with many on the brink of starvation. A time when young men ride through the night smashing and burning the symbols of their oppression. The Mortymer family have left their home in the iron-making country of Blaenafon to seek work in the coal mines of the south. Young Jethro Mortymer decides that he must join the rioters in their bitter struggle even as he is tortured by his own struggle to conceal the love he has for the beautiful Mari, his brother's wife. THE HOSTS OF REBECCA is a brilliant continuation of Alexander Cordell's classic story of mid nineteenth century Wales which began with THE RAPE OF THE FAIR COUNTRY.
Author: Alexander Cordell
Format: Paperback, 288 pages, 132mm x 198mm, 209 g
Published: 2014, Hodder & Stoughton, United Kingdom
Genre: Children's Fiction
Description
It is the time of the Rebecca Riots when economic turmoil and unjust taxes have left the communities of south Wales in dire poverty with many on the brink of starvation. A time when young men ride through the night smashing and burning the symbols of their oppression. The Mortymer family have left their home in the iron-making country of Blaenafon to seek work in the coal mines of the south. Young Jethro Mortymer decides that he must join the rioters in their bitter struggle even as he is tortured by his own struggle to conceal the love he has for the beautiful Mari, his brother's wife. THE HOSTS OF REBECCA is a brilliant continuation of Alexander Cordell's classic story of mid nineteenth century Wales which began with THE RAPE OF THE FAIR COUNTRY.
Hosts of Rebecca: The Mortymer Trilogy Book Two