Book description
When two young women meet under extraordinary circumstances in the
eighteenth-century West Indies, they are unified in their desire to
escape their oppressive lives. The first is a slave, forced to work in a
plantation mansion and subjected to terrible cruelty at the hands of the
plantation manager. The second is a spirited and rebellious English
girl, sent to the West Indies to marry well and combine the wealth of
two respectable families. But fate ensures that one night the two young
women have to save each other and run away to a life no less dangerous
but certainly a lot more free. As pirates, they roam the seas, fight
pitched battles against their foes and become embroiled in many a
heart-quickening adventure. Written in brilliant and sparkling
first-person narrative, this is a wonderful novel in which Celia Rees
has brought the past vividly and intimately to life. Celia Rees is one
of Britain's foremost writers for teenagers and her titles for
Bloomsbury have enjoyed huge success.
Witch Child
has been adopted by educational boards up and down the country and is
required reading in secondary schools in the UK, with life sales of over
180,000, and has been translated into 25 languages. Celia has a degree
in history, a strong interest in which is evident in her brilliantly
researched books. Sorceress
, Pirates!
and Sovay
have all met similar critical acclaim and are loved fro their strong
characters and skillfully plotted adventures. Celia Rees lives in
Leamington Spa, with her husband.
