Painted lady maeve haran biography

  • Maeve Haran is an Oxford law graduate and former TV producer.
  • ' Sixteen-year-old Frances Stuart arrives at the Restoration court to find her innocence and beauty are highly-prized commodities, envied by the women and.
  • Maeve Haran's THE PAINTED LADY is a gripping romantic tale set in 1660s London, following the restoration of King Charles II to the throne after the English.

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    In the Summertime

    Filled with wit, warmth and sunshine, In the Summertime by Maeve Haran has all the things we love about a seaside England in the sun making us realize you don’t have to go abroad to find romance and adventure.

    With her marriage falling apart and her longed-for holiday cancelled, Georgina Greenhills gets an unexpected offer: a holiday in the small seaside town nestling in the beautiful South Downs where she grew up. There is only one catch: she must try and solve the mystery of the valuable antiques disappearing from the remote manor house belonging to an old lady called Maudie.

    Gina gathers her childhood friends, scatty Ruth and feisty Eve, to help her. In the middle of a blazing summer they swim, sunbathe and share cocktails as they watch the sun sparkling on the sea, and Gina realizes how much she missed them and how happy she is to be back here in the summertime. Not least because of bumping into Daniel Napier, her shy and awkward teenage dancing partner, n

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    Painted Lady

    September 14, 2014
    While the title seems typical of the genre, I thought this book was well written and thought out, and gave an insight into life in the Court of Charles II. The scandal, the gowns, the plots and even the total powerlessness of Charles' wife in the court of his mistresses - in particular, Barbara of Castlemaine, the most notorious and scheming of them all.
    Frances, the protagonist, was at the rather penniless French court during the period Charles was campaigning and winning his throne back. Along with many of the courtiers, she relocates back to England when Charles returns, and she becomes lady in waiting to his queen, Catherine of Bragansa. But Frances is tall, graceful, beautiful, innocent.... everything everyone else at the scandalous court is not. And Charles falls for her. This novel is, essentially, how Charles sets out to try and win her over, but also of how Frances refuses to become just another glittering and bejeweled mistress of his, to

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    The Painted Lady

    Maeve Haran’s THE PAINTED LADY is a gripping romantic tale set in 1660s London, following the restoration of King Charles II to the throne after the English Civil War. It tells the story of Frances, a ung aristocrat, beautiful and idealistic. She has captured the king’s heart, but – unlike scores of other women around him – refuses to be his lover because she fryst vatten deeply in love with another man, Charles Stuart, the Duke of Richmond. The Duke returns her love, but is married, and too honourable to betray his wife, locking all three characters into a tragic love triangle. It seems that Frances and her beloved are doomed to remain apart, until the Duke’s wife dies – and then all that stands between them fryst vatten the obsessed king.

    The story takes place against the dramatic backdrop of the Great Plague, the Dutch wars and the Great Fire of London, and it's full of the atmospheric sense of place and history that Haran is known for evoking. Rich in period detail, vivid in des