Summary**2008 PEARL NOMINEE - BEST TIME TRAVEL** **A PNR Staff Top Pick & Reviewer Recommended Read** SOME LOVES... There was little of joy and beauty for Tessa LaPrelle, a scullery maid in 1903 London, but a painting called The Bride of Time. The nude raised eyebrows and speculation that Tessa had posed. Impossible! Even if some man could make her so wanton, even if the subject had Tessa's thick chestnut hair, the work had been commissioned a hundred years previous, at the start of the Regency! ...KNOW THE BRUSH OF ETERNITY Regardless, it wasn't the subject or its uncanny resemblance to her that drew Tessa to The Bride. Nor was it fascination with the artist: one Giles Longworth, whose portrait showed eyes black as sin, wind-combed mahogany hair and broad, muscular shoulders. If any could make her wanton it was he; but he was also accused of sorcery, of dark evil things. Some even said Longworth had been a werewolf, the throats of his alleged victims torn from their bodies. No, what drew Tessa was a small window in the painting's corner, a seeming portal to that wild Cornish wilderness, to misty moors in a time gone by. Sometimes she dreamt she had been running all her life--from what and to whom, she was about to discover.
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"a true storyteller"
Reviewed by Deborah Macgillivray
Posted June 24, 2008
The Bride of Time is a time-travel, as one might
infer from the title, and it's another of author Dawn
Thompson's tour de force books that continually amazed me
with just how talented she was. Tessa LaPrelle is a
scullery maid in Poole House. She Read more...
"A Tale That Grips the Imagination"
Reviewed by Karen Michelle Nutt
Posted December 20, 2008
Tessa LePrelle is a scullery maid in London in the year
1903. To brighten up her dreary existence she visits a
gallery where a century old painting by Giles Longworth,
the "Bride of Time" is on display. She's not only drawn to
patchwork hills and the manor house hidden Read more...
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