The tutor a novel
(2015)

Fiction

eAudiobook

Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books : Made available through hoopla, 2015
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (1 audio file (12hr., 30 min.)) : digital

ISBN/ISSN
9781622316397 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT11418494, 1622316398 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 11418494
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Read by Elizabeth Knowelden

The year is 1590, and Queen Elizabeth's Spanish Armada victory has done nothing to quell her brutal persecution of the English Catholics. Katharine de L'Isle is living at Lufanwal Hall, the manor of her uncle, Sir Edward. Taught by her cherished uncle to read when a child, Katharine is now a thirty-one-year-old widow. She has resigned herself to a life of reading and keeping company with her cousins and their children. But all that changes when the family's priest, who had been performing Catholic services in secret, is found murdered. Faced with threats of imprisonment and death, Sir Edward is forced to flee the country, leaving Katharine adrift in a household rife with turmoil. At this time of unrest, a new schoolmaster arrives from Stratford, a man named William Shakespeare. Coarse, quick-witted, and brazenly flirtatious, Shakespeare swiftly disrupts what fragile peace there is left at Lufanwal. Katharine is at first appalled by the boldness of this new tutor, but when she learns he is a poet, and one of talent, things between them begin to shift, and soon Katharine finds herself drawn into Shakespeare's verse, and his life, in ways that will change her forever. Inventive and absorbing, The Tutor is a masterful work of historical fiction, casting Shakespeare in a light we've never seen

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