{"product_id":"accidents-of-providence","title":"Accidents of Providence","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Wonderfully detailed and keenly researched, it is a moving portrait of a courageous woman caught between a disastrous affair with a charismatic revolutionary and the draconian laws of the land that would put her to death because of it.\"--Kathleen Kent \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDangerous Liaisons: A seventeenth-century heroine for our times\u003c\/i\u003e . . . [A] delightfully seditious heroine...Proof that a historical novel can be educational and entertaining, and nothing like homework.\"--\u003ci\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLondon, 1649: King Charles has been beheaded for treason, Cromwell is in power, the Levelers are demanding rights for the people, and a new law targeting unwed mothers presumes anyone who conceals the death of her illegitimate child is guilty of murder. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGlovemaker Rachel Lockyer is locked in a secret affair. But while her lover is imprisoned in the Tower, a child is found buried in the woods. Rachel is arrested. So comes an investigation, a trial, and an extraordinary cast of characters all brought to reckon for this one life. Spinning within is a remarkable love story and evidence that miracles come to even the commonest lives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The best kind of historical fiction--a combination of love story and murder mystery, with a sprinkling of intriguing historical snippets and wonderful writing.\"--\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[A] marvelous story written in searing prose. Don't miss it!\"--Sheri Holman \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Heart-poundingly vivid [and] intellectually provocative . . . A romping good read . . . Historical fiction at its best.\"--\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Harper Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53017050644800,"sku":"9780547840116","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/8912\/3648\/files\/imageloader_ffde3f5a-9d50-4d2e-84c4-8d65a556bc35.jpg?v=1786542470","url":"https:\/\/silverstreetbooks.com\/products\/accidents-of-providence","provider":"silverstreetbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}