Review: The Lady's Slipper by Deborah Swift

The Lady's Slipperby Deborah Swift
Publication Date: November 23, 2010St. Martin's Griffin464p

SYNOPSIS: 1660. King Charles II has returned from exile, yet memories of a English Civil War still rankle. There are aged scores to settle, as well as religious differences threaten to overturn a frail peace. When Alice Ibbetson discovers a singular orchid, a Ladys Slipper, growing in a wood belonging to Richard Wheeler, she is perplexed by a beauty yet Wheeler, a Quaker, is determined to keep a flowering plant where God dictated it to grow. Knowing which a orchid is a final of a kind, she steals a flower, small dreaming which her clearly simple act will set off a sequence of events which will lead to attempted murder as well as exile, as well as change her hold up forever
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Its amazing which a theft of a single small submissive orchid could set off a series of happenings which will turn 3 lives upside down!
Alice is still in deep anguish over a genocide of her small sister Flora as well as has grown moody, introverted as well as spends most of her time between her paints as well as flowering plant paintings. When Richard Wheeler shows her a singular Ladys Slipper orchid growing on his land, she feels she must save it as well as ensure a survival.
But Alice is not a only a single with a plan for a orchid.
Richard Wheeler, a former member of a Puritan armed forces who has given up his income as well as security to become a Quaker as well as live some-more peacefully after a horrors of war believes a orchid should stay where God placed it as well as Sir Geoffrey Fisk, a nobleman as well as land owner who has a unpleasant skin condition w! ants a f lowering plant for medicinal purposes.
But possessing a orchid does not come at a poor cost as these 3 will come to find out as well as will leave a single fighting for their hold up as well as another losing their sanity.
The unique plot of The Ladys Slipper is what primarily made me want to review it (plus a good cover) as well as it did not disappoint! Deborah Swift has written an engaging novel about hold up in England after Cromwell, a Quakers, as well as a singular flowering plant which altered a lives of those who came in hit with it. I can definitely suggest this book as well as am really much looking brazen to reading Swifts next work, The Gilded Lily!

For some-more information, please revisit Deborah Swift's WEBSITE.
FTC DISCLOSURE: This book was sent to me by a publisher in return for a satisfactory as well as honest review.
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