If you liked Meg Rosoff’s The Bride’s Farewell…
… and your appetite is whetted for more romance of the past, here are a couple more books we recommend you try:
Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D’Urbevilles
Tess is an outsider struggling to make her way in the world alone, against society’s rules. Seduced by a duplicitous older man, her virtue is ruined when she has his baby and her fortune is tragically shaped by an offence that was not her own.
Mary Hoffman: Troubadour
And written for young adults, Troubadour features at 13-year-old noblewoman, Elinor De Sevignan, who escapes her parents’ choice of suitor by posing as a boy singer with a group of travelling minstrels in 13th century France. Mary Hoffman’s latest takes in the crusades, courtly love and some real historical characters.
Meg Rosoff's Bride's Farewell