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Elizabeth Hutchison Bernard, Author of “The Seaforth Heiress” has written a captivating and intriguing novel. The genres for this book are Biographical Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, and British and Irish Literature. This is the second in the “Historic Women of the Highland Series” but can be read alone. The timeline is the early nineteenth century and takes place in Barbados, London, India, and Scotland. The author vividly describes the landscape, scenery, and her dramatic characters. The female protagonist in this novel, Mary Mackenzie is the elder daughter of Lord and Lady Seaforth. Mary has many modern thoughts of what the correct thing to do is. She is disturbed by the way slaves are treated, and how people lose their livelihoods and land, if the landowners sell the land. Mary has a front row seat and sees how her father uses his ruling position, and disagrees with many things.
The Seaforth family seems to be under a prophecy, predicting the end of the family. Mary always keeps this prophecy in her mind, and notices the discrepancies in how she lives, and how the lower class people live. As this prophecy seems to come true, will Mary have the courage and wisdom to decide how to lead her people? I would highly recommend this thought-provoking novel.
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