{"product_id":"the-swans-nest-laura-mcneal-9781643753201","title":"The Swan's Nest","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn engrossing novel about the unlikely love affair between two great 19th-century poets: Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e On a bleak January day in 1845, a poet who had been confined to her room for four years by recurrent illness received a letter from a writer she secretly idolized but had never seen. \"I love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett,\" Robert Browning wrote, \"and I love you too.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Elizabeth Barrett was ecstatic. She was famous for her poetry but too frail for the kind of travel that Browning used to fuel his unsuccessful, innovative poems, which were full of spellbinding villains. The two began a passionate correspondence, but Elizabeth kept delaying a visit. What would happen when he saw her in person? Could she trust his emphatic promises? And would she survive if she secretly turned over the rights to all the money she earned to a man who promised he could take her to the bright, healing sun of Italy? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e McNeal brilliantly dramatizes the perils of falling in love in the Victorian world, where family duty was the most important value of all, married women could not own property, and the fight for freedom and equality was funded by sugar crushed and boiled in the West Indies. Lyrically written, as rich as a Brontë novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Swan's Nest\u003c\/i\u003e will immerse readers in the radical hope of two people who believed love in practice could be as enduring and faithful as love in poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laura McNeal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1643753207\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781643753201\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Algonquin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/12\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.03lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.16h x 6.30w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2023 pg. 6\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/22\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2024 pg. 31\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/15\/2024","brand":"Laura McNeal","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44410604191999,"sku":"9781643753201","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_16d8282b-0722-4823-b5a6-f57e7eca3260.jpg?v=1697536946","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-swans-nest-laura-mcneal-9781643753201","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}