Orphaned while onboard ship from Ireland, seven-year-old Lavinia arrives
on the steps of a tobacco plantation where she is to live and work with
the slaves of the kitchen house. Under
the care of Belle, the master’s illegitimate daughter, Lavinia becomes
deeply bonded to her new adopted family, even though she is forever set
apart from them by her white skin. As Lavinia is slowly accepted into
the world of the big house, where the master is absent and the mistress
battles an opium addiction, she finds herself perilously straddling two
very different worlds. When Lavinia marries the master’s troubled son
and takes on the role of mistress, loyalties are brought into question,
dangerous truths are laid bare and lives are put at risk.
The Kitchen House is a tragic story of page-turning suspense, exploring the meaning of family, where love and loyalty prevail..
368 pages (February 2010)
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