The Mapmaker's Wife
A spellbinding story of love, secrets and devastating choices
Published on 24. April 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-1-3987-1622-3 (ISBN)
Description
A forbidden love.
An impossible decision.
A family changed forever...
1954. Bea Bell has lived in Grenada her whole life... until she meets handsome surveyor Patrick Anderson. The two are quickly swept up in a whirlwind romance that takes them across the crumbling Empire. But not everyone is as accepting of their interracial marriage. And soon they are faced with an impossible decision, one that threatens to tear them apart...
2015. Since her mother's death, Amelia has tirelessly taken care of her family. So it falls to her to pack up her family's memories and sell their family home, whilst taking care of her aging father. But then Amelia finds a handwritten letter, unveiling a family secret that reveals how little she really knows about herself...
The Mapmaker's Wife is a sweeping love story which explores identity, friendship and family and will appeal to fans of Santa Montefiore and Dinah Jefferies.
An impossible decision.
A family changed forever...
1954. Bea Bell has lived in Grenada her whole life... until she meets handsome surveyor Patrick Anderson. The two are quickly swept up in a whirlwind romance that takes them across the crumbling Empire. But not everyone is as accepting of their interracial marriage. And soon they are faced with an impossible decision, one that threatens to tear them apart...
2015. Since her mother's death, Amelia has tirelessly taken care of her family. So it falls to her to pack up her family's memories and sell their family home, whilst taking care of her aging father. But then Amelia finds a handwritten letter, unveiling a family secret that reveals how little she really knows about herself...
The Mapmaker's Wife is a sweeping love story which explores identity, friendship and family and will appeal to fans of Santa Montefiore and Dinah Jefferies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Orion Publishing Co
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
258 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-3987-1622-3 (9781398716223)
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05/2024
Orion
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Person
Hannah is based in Cardiff, South Wales, and works in communications and as a staff writer for Santes Dwynwen magazine. She was a part of the Hachette Future Bookshelf prize.