Bøger af Pamela Binnings Ewen

From Pamela Binnings Ewen, bestselling author of The Queen of Paris and Émilienne, The Moon in the Mango Tree is a lush historical novel set in the 1920s.It is a dazzling decade, and Barbara Bond is a beautiful young singer torn between her fierce desire for independence and her deep, abiding love for her husband, a brilliant doctor. She has trained for years to sing grand opera, but soon after her marriage to Harvey Perkins, she learns that he has accepted an assignment as a medical missionary in the country of Siam. Suddenly Barbara is forced into the duty of a "good wife"--to support her husband's career, not her own. As resentment slowly grows, she travels with Harvey first to the jungles of Siam, then to the capital city of Bangkok, where he is now physician to the royal court. As she struggles with the secrets straining their marriage, Barbara wonders if she has made the right choice. At last, leaving her husband in Bangkok, she flees to Paris, then Rome, where she can finally sing on stage. If Harvey loves her, the risk is worth it for a chance to have it all--her husband and her career. Why should she be forced to choose?And, if she chooses, must the other be lost forever?

Can she have it all--or does she have to choose? And when you choose between two things you love Must one be forever lose? It is the dazzling decade, the 1920's, and a beautiful young singer is torn between her fierce desire for independence--to create something of her own, for meaning and purpose--and a deep abiding love for her husband, a medical missionary who will become royal physician to the court of Siam. Based on a true story, one young woman will travel from Philadelphia of the Roaring Twenties to the jungles of the Orient, to pre-war Paris and Rome, in the struggle to find her place in the world. WINNER OF THE EUDORA WELTY AWARD FOR FICTION National League of American Pen Women "This rich, enveloping novel draws the reader in and won't let go. For an all too brief time readers will find themselves living in another time, another place. Like Harvey's healing medicine, Barbara's inspiring music, this fiction is a kind of gift as well." Susan Larson. Book Editor, New Orleans Times Picayune. "...deeply moving..." Romantic Times - Four Stars "Rich and heartfelt..." Publishers Weekly "You will have to read this one to see just how far one sometimes has to go to discover what it really is that they want in life, what will make them feel complete. A MUST READ!" --Beyond Her Book Blog--PublishersWeekly.com. "A thought provoking enjoyable story, difficult to put down. Highly recommended." Editor's Choice: Historical Novels Review. Historical Novel Society.