The Wilding
Published on 4. February 2010
352 pages
978-0-571-25314-2 (ISBN)
Description
A novel of secrets and revenge within a 17th century English family.
Longlisted for the Orange Prize
1672. A generation after the Civil War, Jonathan Dymond, a cider maker, has so far enjoyed a quiet life. But when he discovers a letter from his dying uncle, hinting an inheritance and revenge, he is determined to unravel the mystery in his family. Under the pretence of his cider business, Jonathan visits his newly widowed aunt and there meets her unruly servant girl, Tamar, who soon reveals that she has secrets of her own...
Longlisted for the Orange Prize
1672. A generation after the Civil War, Jonathan Dymond, a cider maker, has so far enjoyed a quiet life. But when he discovers a letter from his dying uncle, hinting an inheritance and revenge, he is determined to unravel the mystery in his family. Under the pretence of his cider business, Jonathan visits his newly widowed aunt and there meets her unruly servant girl, Tamar, who soon reveals that she has secrets of her own...
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
File size
0,70 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-571-25314-2 (9780571253142)
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Maria McCann's first novel, As Meat Loves Salt, was published by Flamingo in 2000 to huge acclaim: Andrew Marr praised it as 'outstanding...with all the dirt, stink, rasp and flavour of the time' and Lionel Shriver called it 'riveting'. Maria's fiction has also been published in various anthologies. Since 1986 Maria has been living and working in Somerset, apart from one year spent teaching in France. She combines teaching and writing with other interests such as voluntary communities and the allotments movement.
Content
- Intro
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Note to the reader
- 1672
- 1: Of Apples in Eden
- 2: An Interlude
- 3: Of Mrs Harriet and her Household
- 4: Of Wandering
- 5: On the Natural Deceitfulness of Women
- 6: Of Murc and Rot
- 7: Of Home, and the Dreams I Had There
- 8: On the Desirability of Marrying Off Young Persons
- 9: Concerning That Broad Highway, The Road to Hell
- 10: After Fire, Ashes
- 11: None So Deep as a Dymond
- 12: Lovers of the Gentleman
- 13: The Kind of Man I Was
- 14: Man to Man
- 15: Attempts at Reasoning
- 16: The Wilding
- 17: Concerning Corruption in Cider
- 18: On the Disagreeableness of Home Truths
- 19: Of Diverse Sorts of Inheritances
- 20: How I Lost Part of My Hair
- 21: Settling Accounts
- 22: Advice to Live Happy
- 1674
- 23: Writings and Writings
- Acknowledgements
- Keep reading
- About the Author
- By the Same Author
- Copyright
