The 19th Wife
Author: Ebershoff, David
ISBN: 9780552774987
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 01 May 2009
Pages: 608
Format: Paperback / softback
A pageturning murder mystery set in a secretive polygamous Mormon sect by the author of The Danish Girl, now a major film starring Eddie Redmayne.
Jordan returns from California to Utah to visit his mother in jail. As a teenager he was expelled from his family and religious community, a secretive Mormon offshoot sect. Now his father has been found shot dead in front of his computer, and one of his many wives - Jordan's mother - is accused of the crime.
Over a century earlier, Ann Eliza Young, the nineteenth wife of Brigham Young, Prophet and Leader of the Mormon Church, tells the sensational story of how her own parents were drawn into plural marriage, and how she herself battled for her freedom and escaped her powerful husband, to lead a crusade to end polygamy in the United States.
Bold, shocking and gripping, The 19th Wife expertly weaves together these two narratives- a pageturning literary mystery and an enthralling epic of love and faith.
ISBN: 9780552774987
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 01 May 2009
Pages: 608
Format: Paperback / softback
A pageturning murder mystery set in a secretive polygamous Mormon sect by the author of The Danish Girl, now a major film starring Eddie Redmayne.
Jordan returns from California to Utah to visit his mother in jail. As a teenager he was expelled from his family and religious community, a secretive Mormon offshoot sect. Now his father has been found shot dead in front of his computer, and one of his many wives - Jordan's mother - is accused of the crime.
Over a century earlier, Ann Eliza Young, the nineteenth wife of Brigham Young, Prophet and Leader of the Mormon Church, tells the sensational story of how her own parents were drawn into plural marriage, and how she herself battled for her freedom and escaped her powerful husband, to lead a crusade to end polygamy in the United States.
Bold, shocking and gripping, The 19th Wife expertly weaves together these two narratives- a pageturning literary mystery and an enthralling epic of love and faith.
