Series:
Women of Pepys Diary Series #2
Genre: Historical Fiction
Release Date: July 5th 2018
Publisher: Accent Press
The
second novel in the series based on the different women in Samuel Pepys’s
famous diary.
Sometimes the pursuit of money costs too much...
Ambitious Bess Bagwell is determined that her carpenter husband, Will, should make a name for himself in the Navy shipyards. To further his career, she schemes for him to meet Samuel Pepys, diarist, friend of the King and an important man in the Navy.
But Pepys has his own motive for cultivating the attractive Bess, and it's certainly not to benefit her husband. Bess soon finds she is caught in a trap of her own making.
Sometimes the pursuit of money costs too much...
Ambitious Bess Bagwell is determined that her carpenter husband, Will, should make a name for himself in the Navy shipyards. To further his career, she schemes for him to meet Samuel Pepys, diarist, friend of the King and an important man in the Navy.
But Pepys has his own motive for cultivating the attractive Bess, and it's certainly not to benefit her husband. Bess soon finds she is caught in a trap of her own making.
As the summer heat rises, the Great Plague has London in its grip. Red crosses mark the doors, wealthy citizens flee and only the poor remain to face the march of death.
With
pestilence rife in the city, all trade ceases.
With
no work as a carpenter, Will is forced to invest in his unscrupulous cousin
Jack's dubious 'cure' for the pestilence which horrifies Bess and leaves them
deeper in debt.
Now
they are desperate for money and the dreaded disease is moving ever closer.
Will Mr Pepys honour his promises or break them? And will they be able to heal
the divide that threatens to tear their marriage apart?
EXTRACT
London, March 1663
‘Here’s the address,’ Bess said, pressing the
paper down on the table in front of her husband. She patted him on the
shoulder, which released a puff of dust. Will was a fine figure of a man – tall
and blond, with arms muscled from lifting timber, and the fine-boned hands of a
craftsman, but his clothes were always full of sawdust and wood-shavings.
He turned and smiled, with an expression
that said he was ready to humour her.
‘It’s on the other side of the Thames,
close to one of the shipyards. Big houses all round. A nice neighbourhood.
Quiet.’
‘Where?’ Will asked, standing to pick up
the paper, and stooping from habit because their attic room was so low.
‘Deptford.’ She held her breath.
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PRAISE FOR PLEASING MR PEPYS
'Swift is a consummate historical
novelist, basing her books on immaculate research and then filling the gaps
between real events and real people with eloquent storytelling,
atmospheric scene setting and imaginative plot lines' The Visitor
'Pepys and his world spring to
vibrant life...Gripping, revealing and stunningly imagined, Pleasing Mr Pepys
is guaranteed to please' Lancashire Evening Post
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
From Deborah Swift:
I write historical fiction, a genre I love. I
loved the Victorian classics such as Jane Eyre, Lorna Doone and Wuthering
Heights. As I child I loved to read and when I had read my own library books, I
used to borrow my mother's library copies of Anya Seton and Daphne du Maurier.
I have loved reading historical novels ever since; though I'm a bookaholic and
I read widely - contemporary and classic fiction as well as historicals.
In the past I used to work as a set and costume designer for theatre and TV, so I enjoy the research aspect of creating historical fiction, something I loved doing as a scenographer. Each book takes about six months of research before I am ready to begin writing. More details of my research and writing process can be found on my website. I like to write about extraordinary characters set against the background of real historical events.
I live in North Lancashire on the edge of the Lake District, an area made famous by the Romantic Poets such as Wordsworth and Coleridge.
I took an MA in Creative Writing in 2007 and now teach classes and courses in writing, and offer editorial advice from my home. A Plague on Mr Pepys is my ninth published novel.
In the past I used to work as a set and costume designer for theatre and TV, so I enjoy the research aspect of creating historical fiction, something I loved doing as a scenographer. Each book takes about six months of research before I am ready to begin writing. More details of my research and writing process can be found on my website. I like to write about extraordinary characters set against the background of real historical events.
I live in North Lancashire on the edge of the Lake District, an area made famous by the Romantic Poets such as Wordsworth and Coleridge.
I took an MA in Creative Writing in 2007 and now teach classes and courses in writing, and offer editorial advice from my home. A Plague on Mr Pepys is my ninth published novel.
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