The Bride of the Wilderness, Charles McCarry
The Bride of the Wilderness, Charles McCarry
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The Bride of the Wilderness

Author: Charles McCarry

Narrator: Pam Ward

Unabridged: 19 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/01/2008

Synopsis

The acclaimed author of such suspense classics as The Tears of Autumn and The Miernik Dossier brings us a unique period romance, set in early 18th century Europe and New England and featuring the ancestors of his recurring masterspy Paul Christopher. Young, highspirited Fanny has been fortunate in her civilized upbringing, but the London she has grown up in is riddled with danger and brutality. When a sinister stranger traps her family into debt in order to advance on Fanny, she is forced to take refuge in France, where she meets a young French soldier called Philippe de SaintChristophe. Their paths will cross again in the New World, where the war between the English and the French is fought with the help of savage Indians on both sides. Together, Fanny and Philippe will carve out a fierce, adventurous life in the vigorous, untamed wilderness.

About Charles McCarry

Charles McCarry is the author of ten critically acclaimed novels and nine nonfiction books. He is a former editor-at-large of National Geographic and has contributed dozens of articles, short stories, and poems to leading national magazines. His op-ed pieces and other essays have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. For ten years he served under deep cover as a CIA operations officer.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rosina on January 24, 2010

McCarry is best known for his political novels and for a series of espionage novels focusing on the Christopher family. One day he decided to sit down and write a historical novel about the founding of that family, set in the early eighteenth century in London, Canada, and the wilderness that would......more

Goodreads review by Elliot on November 11, 2021

This is indeed a remarkable novel in that acclaimed espionage author Charles McCarry (who also wrote one quite decent sci-fi novel) has written here a long novel set in the last l5 years of the 17th century and has accomplished this genre-changing feat superbly. I have read all of McCarry's books ov......more

Goodreads review by Mitzi on March 28, 2014

I had a problem with this book that could have been a deal breaker - the main character, who is too perfect for words. Not once did I find myself caring about her or what happened to her. And her love interest? The same thing - in fact I could see no reason why she should love him at all, and I neve......more

Goodreads review by David on July 02, 2023

Charles McCarry, better known for his spy novels (featuring Paul Christopher as an American George Smiley), spins a yarn of Colonial America to tell the tale of Paul Christopher's ancestors. Fast paced, literate, and compelling, The Bride of the Wilderness deserves to be better known. In the traditi......more

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