The Maze at Windermere A Novel

Gregory Blake Smith, Richard Topol, Edoardo Ballerini, Raphael Corkhill, Michael Crouch, Caitlin Davies

eAudio - 2018

“A dazzling high-wire act. I turned every page with a sense of wonder and excitement.” —RICHARD RUSSOA richly layered novel of love, ambition, and duplicity, set against the storied seascape of Newport, Rhode Island A reckless wager between a tennis pro with a fading career and a drunken party guest—the stakes are an antique motorcycle and an heiress’s diamond necklace—launches a narrative odyssey that braids together three centuries of aspiration and adversity. A witty and urbane bachelor of the Gilded Age embarks on a high-risk scheme to marry into a fortune; a young writer soon to make his mark turns himself to his craft with harrowing social consequences; an aristocratic British officer during the American Revolution carri...es on a courtship that leads to murder; and, in Newport’s earliest days, a tragically orphaned Quaker girl imagines a way forward for herself and the slave girl she has inherited.... more