01980cam a2200337 i 4500 385800469 TxAuBib 20190711120000.0 180921s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018044474 9780062839022 26.99 0062839020 26.99 eng rda TxAuBib rda Willig, Lauren. The summer country [BOOK] : a novel / Lauren Willig. First edition. New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019] 464 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Barbados, 1854: Emily Dawson has always been the poor cousin in a prosperous English merchant clan -- merely a vicar's daughter, and a reform-minded vicar's daughter, at that. Everyone knows that the family's lucrative shipping business will go to her cousin, Adam, one day. But when her grandfather dies, Emily receives an unexpected inheritance: Peverills, a sugar plantation in Barbados, a plantation her grandfather never told anyone he owned. When Emily accompanies her cousin and his new wife to Barbados, she finds Peverills a burnt-out shell, reduced to ruins in 1816, when a rising of enslaved people sent the island up in flames. Rumors swirl around the derelict plantation; people whisper of ghosts. Why would her practical-minded grandfather leave her a property in ruins? Why are the neighboring plantation owners, the Davenants, so eager to acquire Peverills? 20190711. Sugar plantations Barbados Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. Haunted places Fiction. Inheritance and succession Fiction. Barbados Fiction. Barbados History Fiction. Historical fiction.