Título: The Cartographer's Secret
Autor: Tea Cooper
Sinopse: A map into the past. A long-lost young woman. And a thirty-year family mystery.
The Hunter Valley, 1880. Evie Ludgrove loves to chart the landscape around her home—hardly surprising since she grew up in the shadow of her father’s obsession with the great Australian explorer Dr. Ludwig Leichhardt. So when an advertisement appears in The Bulletin magazine offering a thousand-pound reward for proof of where Leichhardt met his fate, Evie is determined to use her father’s papers to unravel the secret. But when Evie sets out to prove her theory, she vanishes without a trace, leaving behind a mystery that haunts her family for thirty years.
Letitia Rawlings arrives at the family estate in her Ford Model T to inform her great-aunt Olivia of a loss in their family. But Letitia is also escaping her own problems—her brother’s sudden death, her mother’s scheming, and her dissatisfaction with the life planned out for her. So when Letitia discovers a beautifully illustrated map that might hold a clue to the fate of her missing aunt, Evie Ludgrove, she sets out to discover the truth. But all is not as it seems, and Letitia begins to realize that solving the mystery of her family’s past could offer as much peril as redemption.
A gripping historical mystery for fans of Kate Morton and Natasha Lester’s The Paris Seamstress, The Cartographer’s Secret follows a young woman’s quest to heal a family rift as she becomes entangled in one of Australia’s greatest historical puzzles.
“A galvanizing, immersive adventure . . . forcing the characters to reckon with the choice found at the crux of passion and loyalty and the power of shared blood that can either destroy or heal.” —Joy Callaway, international bestselling author of The Fifth Avenue Artists Society Daphne du Maurier Award Winner, 2021 Historical story with both romance and mystery Full-length, stand-alone novel (c. 104,000 words) Includes discussion questions for book clubs
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “The Cartographer’s Secret”, de Tea Cooper, publicado pela editora Harper Muse, em 2021 e com 400 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: Harper Muse
Páginas: 400
Ano: 2021-11-16
Edição:
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 078526731X
ISBN13: 9780785267317
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Harper Muse costumam transportar o leitor para narrativas profundamente humanas, muitas vezes centradas em jornadas de autodescoberta, relações familiares e desafios pessoais. As histórias frequentemente se desenrolam em cenários marcantes, como pequenas cidades do Sul dos Estados Unidos, resorts históricos ou ambientes imersos em contextos sociais e históricos específicos, como a luta pelos direitos civis ou a Segunda Guerra Mundial. O tom varia entre o emocional e o leve, com momentos de humor e tensão, e o ritmo alterna entre o intimista e o mais dinâmico, conforme a trama exige. O catálogo revela uma predileção por tramas que exploram o passado e suas consequências no presente, além de personagens femininas complexas e situações que mesclam o realismo com toques sutis de magia ou mistério.
