Happy holidays, everyone! Today I've got a great bookish gift for you: the chance to win a very good historical novel, A Motif of Season by Edward Glover, and the possibility to read its catching prologue. If you liked Birdsong or Parade's End (either the novels or theirTV adaptations) or The Crimson Field, you'll love this book! The novel is part of a saga but can be read as a stand alone book. Set in the latter half of the 19th century, A Motif of Seasons tells the stories of two powerful European families – the von Deppes in Germany and theWhitfields in England – still locked in an ancient rivalry, triggered by an ancestral union. The unexpected marriage in 1766 between the beautiful, capricious and musically accomplished young Arabella Whitfield and the older Prussian military officer Count Carl Manfred von Deppe has left a legacy of distrust and prejudice.Against the backdrop of a widening and destructive gulf between England and Germany, A Motif of Seasons follows three women – Victoria Elise von Böhm, Alice Bartlett and Arabella von Eisenwald – kindred spirits of the feisty Arabella, who share her musical talent and her passion for life. The three women find love, uncover family secrets locked away in an 18th-century music book and define their individuality in a patriarchal landscape of social straitjackets and dictated norms. But the past proves a formidable opponent.
With tales of hidden illegitimate children, sensual affairs and young soldiers braving the horrors of First World War battlefields, A Motif of Seasons is an adventurous, gripping and touching epic about family, love and social freedom.
Read the Prologue
GIVEAWAYA Motif of Seasons by Edward Glover is out now. Available to order here
