The Daughters of Blane
by Harriet Smart
Price: $2.99 USD. 206370 words.
Published by Anthemion on June 8, 2010. .
Set against the turbulent events of the 1890s and moving from the Western Isles of Scotland to London society, from slum life in Edinburgh to a palazzo in Venice, and finally to the battlefields of the Boer war, The Daughters of Blane is the passionate and ultimately triumphant story of three women who refuse to fit the mould society has made for them.
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Harriet Smart is a novelist living in Edinburgh.
Educated at the University of St Andrews, Harriet’s debut novel, A GARLAND OF VOWS, was inspired by her research into a firm of nineteenth-century church furnishers and turned into an epic family saga, spanning fifty years. Her second novel, GREEN GROW THE RUSHES, set in Edwardian Scotland, was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. She is currently writing a series of crime novels set in early Victorian England.
Along with her husband Julian Smart she has designed Writer’s Café, a software toolkit for fiction writers. For more information see www.writerscafe.co.uk.
Educated at the University of St Andrews, Harriet’s debut novel, A GARLAND OF VOWS, was inspired by her research into a firm of nineteenth-century church furnishers and turned into an epic family saga, spanning fifty years. Her second novel, GREEN GROW THE RUSHES, set in Edwardian Scotland, was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. She is currently writing a series of crime novels set in early Victorian England.
Along with her husband Julian Smart she has designed Writer’s Café, a software toolkit for fiction writers. For more information see www.writerscafe.co.uk.
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