Thanks to Danielle Caravella of Wunderkind PR, I am giving away one copy of The Family Mansion.
Book Description:
After a botched attempt to have his elder brother assassinated in order to inherit the title of Duke, Hartley Fudges finds himself exiled to Jamaica to make his own fortune. In his new home, Fudges speaks with Received Pronunciation, stands erect, and muses about philosophy like a proper English gentleman only to be rendered useless in the face of yellow fever and rebel slaves.
In THE FAMILY MANSION, as Hartley painfully adjusts to life on a plantation manned by slaves, he begins to question all that he thought he knew. He has a passionate affair with a woman who, to his own great surprise, he loves madly despite her ability to write only one English word. But just when it seems that he might find happiness and humility, he runs into his former slave who, having learned from Hartley, is hell bent on becoming an English gentleman himself in the worst way.
About Anthony C. Winkler:
ANTHONY C. WINKLER was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1942 and is widely recognized as one of the island’s finest exports. After being expelled from Cornwall College for refusing to submit to corporal punishment (which entailed being beaten with a cane), he eventually made his way to California where he attended Citrus College and California State University, earning a BA and MA in English.
His first published novel, The Painted Canoe (1984), received critical acclaim and was followed by The Lunatic (1987), The Great Yacht Race (1992), The Duppy (1997), Crocodile (2009), Dog War (2007), and God Carlos (2012). Trust the Darkness: My Life as a Writer, his autobiography, was published in 2008. His writing credits also include film scripts and plays. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife Cathy.
This giveaway is open to the U. S. only and ends on May 24, 2013. Please use Rafflecopter to enter.
Copyright 2007-2010: All the posts within this blog were originally posted by Teddy Rose and should not be reproduced without express written permission.
An exotic tale, The Family Mansion sounds very interesting, I wish you well with your release:O)
It sounds great! I want it!
Sounds like a story to keep me hooked till the last page.
I like the setting of Jamaica for this book. It sounds like a great read. Thanks for this chance.
ayancey(at)dishmail(dot)net
This sounds very interesting.