Victoria Giraud (Libri)

Victoria Giraud Libri

Victoria Giraud ha dedicato quasi tutta la vita alla scrittura, evolvendo dai giornali scolastici a rubriche su quotidiani di Los Angeles e alla redazione di riviste. La sua profonda fascinazione per la storia l'ha guidata verso la narrativa storica, dove esplora trame avvincenti di epoche passate. La scrittura della Giraud è caratterizzata da uno stile narrativo immersivo che trasporta il lettore nelle avventure e nelle complessità del passato. Le sue opere riflettono una vita ricca di esperienze e un occhio attento agli eventi che hanno plasmato la storia moderna.

Melaynie's Masquerade

364pagine
13 ore di lettura

What's a girl going to do when she wants adventure in her life, and men have all the fun? Melaynie Morgan is an independent-minded young woman in Plymouth, England, but it's the 16th century, and women are expected to dress elaborately and attend to womanly duties. Forget about doublets, swords and sailing ships. Melaynie refuses to let her conventional background deter her. She disguises herself as a captain's boy and signs on with privateer Francis Drake to plunder Spanish treasure in the exotic Caribbean. In the chess game of Renaissance politics it's an undeclared war of opposing religions, but Queen Elizabeth's Protestant England and King Philip's Catholic Spain are maintaining a guarded peace. Into that mix comes Plymouth's Drake, waging his own private war with Spain. Melaynie finds more than she bargained for during her year in the tropics serving Drake from disease, death and danger to a romance with a Spaniard and a friendship with an ex-slave. She returns to England wiser but secretly pregnant. Her daughter Joan grows up unaware of her true parentage until the Spanish Armada brings a bittersweet and surprising reunion.