A Marriage of Attachment
By Lona Manning
2018
First Published
4.15
Average Rating
368
Number of Pages
A Marriage of Attachment continues the story of Fanny Price as she struggles to build her own life after leaving her rich uncle’s home. Fanny teaches sewing to poor working-class girls in London, while trying to forget her first love, Edmund Bertram, who is trapped in a disastrous marriage with Mary Crawford. Together with her brother John and her friend, the writer William Gibson, she discovers a plot that threatens someone at the highest levels of government. Meanwhile, Fanny’s brother William fights slavery on the high seas while longing for the girl he loves. Filled with romance, suspense and even danger, A Marriage of Attachment takes the familiar characters from Mansfield Park on a new journey.A Marriage of Attachment is the sequel to A Contrary Wind.
Avg Rating
4.15
Number of Ratings
41
5 STARS
41%
4 STARS
39%
3 STARS
15%
2 STARS
2%
1 STARS
2%
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Author
Lona Manning
Author · 4 books
Lona Manning has a website and blog at www.lonamanning.ca She loves reading, choral singing, gardening and travel. Over the years, she has been a legal secretary, political speech writer, office manager, vocational instructor, non-profit administrator and teacher of English as a Second Language. She spent four years teaching in China, where she began writing her debut novel, A Contrary Wind. She and her family live in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia.
