New York Times bestselling author of The Christie Affair
“Peregrine Hill is my favorite kind of novel: stirring, beautifully told and utterly captivating with characters I’m still thinking about days later. I loved it.”
— Clare Leslie Hall, New York Times bestselling author of Broken Country
Peregrine Hill
A Novel by Nina de Gramont
At the dawn of the 20th century, widow Isabelle Bishop still believes in love—but she knows only money can save her. After losing her husband and three of her children in a shipwreck, she has one chance to rescue what remains of her family: her daughter Mariah and her elderly mother. When Isabelle captures the attention of John Whitten, one of New York’s wealthiest men, she dares to hope that fortune might finally favor her.
But Whitten’s interest is not in Isabelle—it’s in eighteen-year-old Mariah, still reeling from a romantic but disastrous scandal. When Whitten discovers the secret mother and daughter have tried to keep buried, he uses it to his advantage, threatening to expose them unless Mariah accepts his proposal. For the sake of their survival, Isabelle makes a devil’s bargain: She will urge her daughter into a marriage she knows could destroy her.
Mariah quickly realizes her husband’s home is a gilded cage. Yet even under his watchful eye, she begins to carve out passions of her own, finding an unexpected ally in her ambitious maid, Hetty, and daring to imagine a life beyond her constricted world. Together, she and Hetty risk everything to claim a measure of power and self-determination in a world that attempts to deny them both.
From the glittering parlors of Gilded Age New York to the windswept cliffs of Rhode Island, Peregrine Hill is a novel in the tradition of Edith Wharton and the Brontë sisters, about unlikely love affairs and the impossible choices women have always been forced to make.
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Nina de Gramont
About the Author
Nina de Gramont is the author of The Christie Affair, which was a New York Times bestseller and a Reese’s Book Club pick. She is also the author of a collection of short stories, as well as the novels Gossip of the Starlings and The Last September. Nina teaches creative writing at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
Nina de Gramont
About the Author
Nina de Gramont is the author of The Christie Affair, which was a New York Times bestseller and a Reese’s Book Club pick. She is also the author of a collection of short stories, as well as the novels Gossip of the Starlings and The Last September. Nina teaches creative writing at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
The Christie AFfair
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Nina de Gramont’s The Christie Affair is a beguiling novel of star-crossed lovers, heartbreak, revenge, and murder—and a brilliant re-imagination of one of the most talked-about unsolved mysteries of the twentieth century.
The greatest mystery wasn’t Agatha Christie’s disappearance in those eleven infamous days, it’s what she discovered.
London, 1925: In a world of townhomes and tennis matches, socialites and shooting parties, Miss Nan O’Dea became Archie Christie’s mistress, luring him away from his devoted and well-known wife, Agatha Christie. The question is, why? Why destroy another woman’s marriage, why hatch a plot years in the making, and why murder?
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THE CHRISTIE AFFAIR:
“[A} murder mystery worthy of the dame herself… Devilishly clever, elegantly composed and structured—simply splendid.”
Kirkus reviews (starred review)
The Last September:
“With an artist’s eye and a poet’s heart, de Gramont realizes a world of love, mystery, and the shattering sorrow of mental illness, deceit, hope, and lives cut short. Impossible to put down.”
Library Journal (Starred Review)
Gossip of The Starlings:
“The kind of smart and riveting read that fans of a certain kind of campus drama – think Donna Tartt’s The Secret History – will devour…There’s romance, betrayal, a gorgeous scholarship boy, and a spot-on rendering of the queasy regret you sometimes feel when friends from separate orbit meet. Grab this one and share it with your teenage daughter.”
People
The Boy I Love:
“Wren’s voice transforms the potential teen dramafest into a nuanced reflection on gaining independence through the pursuit of individual interests and demonstration of concern for the well-being of others… While not romantic, Wren and Tim’s relationship becomes another powerful iteration of the book’s message that ‘[l]ove is love,’ and all loves deserve respect.”
Kirkus Reviews
Every Little Thing in the World:
“Nina de Gramont’s novel (Atheneum, 2010) offers an authentic, sensitive snapshot of late adolescence and raises thought-provoking questions regarding pregnancy, sex, abuse, drugs, and other teen issues. She masterfully captures hope amidst angst and has a surprise at the end of the story.”
School Library Journal (An ALA Best Book for Young Adults)
The Distance From Me to You:
“Readers will enjoy the compelling, well-paced depiction of the adventure and lore of the AT, and they will be glad to find such a tough-minded, capable heroine in a realistic novel.”
Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books (A Junior Library Guild Selection and optioned for a movie starring Sabrina Carpenter)