Full name: The American Heiress: A Novel

Also published as: My Last Duchess

Author: Daisy Goodwin Year: 2010 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Historical fiction, Romance, Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780312658656 9780312658663 0312658656 0312658664

Witty, moving, and brilliantly entertaining, The American Heiress marks the debut of a glorious storyteller who brings a fresh new spirit to the world of Edith Wharton and Henry James. Be careful what you wish for. Traveling abroad with her mother at the turn of the twentieth century to seek a titled husband, beautiful, vivacious Cora Cash, whose family mansion in Newport dwarfs the Vanderbilts', suddenly finds herself Duchess of Wareham, married to Ivo, the most eligible bachelor in England. Nothing is quite as it seems, however: Ivo is withdrawn and secretive, and the English social scene is full of traps and betrayals. Money, Cora soon learns, cannot buy everything, as she must decide what is truly worth the price in her life and her marriage. Witty, moving, and brilliantly entertaining, Cora's story marks the debut of a glorious storyteller who brings a fresh new spirit to the world of Edith Wharton and Henry James. Similar books: Victoria by Daisy Goodwin The Fortune Hunter by Daisy Goodwin The Cider House Rules by John Irving The Apothecary's Daughter by Julie Klassen The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber The MacKinnon's Bride by Tanya Anne Crosby The Wild One by Danelle Harmon Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier The Duke's Holiday by Maggie Fenton The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert Honor's Splendour by Julie Garwood Ride the Wind by Lucia St. Clair Robson The Prize by Julie Garwood Flowers from the Storm by Laura Kinsale Rainwater by Sandra Brown With Every Breath by Elizabeth Camden The Maid of Fairbourne Hall by Julie Klassen Going Home by James D. Shipman The Diary of Mattie Spenser by Sandra Dallas