The House Is on Fire - Rachel Beanland

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epub | 6.51 MB | English | Isbn:‎ 1982186143 | Author: Rachel Beanland | Year: 2023

Description:

The author of Florence Adler Swims Forever returns with a masterful work of historical fiction about an incendiary tragedy that shocked a young nation and tore apart a community in a single night-told from the perspectives of four people whose actions during the inferno changed the course of history.
Richmond, Virginia 1811. It's the height of the winter social season, the General Assembly is in session, and many of Virginia's gentleman planters, along with their wives and children, have made the long and arduous journey to the capital in hopes of whiling away the darkest days of the year. At the city's only theater, the Charleston-based Placide & Green Company puts on two plays a night to meet the demand of a populace that's done looking for enlightenment at the front of a church.

On the night after Christmas, the theater is packed with more than six hundred holiday revelers. In the third-floor boxes, sits newly-widowed Sally Henry...

Category:Women's Psychological Fiction, Women's Historical Fiction, Psychological Fiction

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