Written in brilliant and sparkling first-person narrative, this is a wonderful novel in which Celia Rees has brought the past vividly and intimately to life. As pirates, they roam the seas, fight pitched battles against their foes and become embroiled in many a heart-quickening adventure. The second is a spirited and rebellious English girl, sent to the West Indies to marry well.īut fate ensures that one night the two young women have to save each other and run away to a life no less dangerous but certainly a lot more free.

The first is a slave, forced to work in a plantation mansion and subjected to terrible cruelty at the hands of the plantation manager. When two young women meet under extraordinary circumstances in the eighteenth-century West Indies, they are unified in their desire to escape their oppressive lives. Celia Rees Pirates The True and Remarkable Adventures of Minerva Sharpe and Nancy Kington, Female Pirates (The Literacy Bridge - Large Print) Hardcover Large Print, Jby Celia Rees (Author) 226 ratings Kindle 6.15 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 8.95 5 Used from 8. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo From the author of the bestselling and award-winning WITCH CHILD, comes another outstanding historical novel. But in the end, the money, the adventure, the companionship, and the chance to see the world not as women, but as bold and daring pirates, is an opportunity neither can deny.Ī powerful, thrilling, and ultimately inspiring journey of two women who break the bonds of gender, race, and position to find their own way to glory.Also available on eBook for £5.99. For Minerva, it is an escape from slavery, as well as from the fearsome overseer on Nancy's family plantation. Or so they hope.įor Nancy, the Deliverance is her escape from an arranged betrothal to a controlling and devilish man. Not just any trading ship, the Deliverance flies black flags from its mast, proclaiming to all that the newly named, hijacked ship is a pirate vessel, striking fear into the hearts of those she approaches. But two unusually adventurous girls-a rich merchant's daughter, Nancy Kington, and her former plantation slave, Minerva Sharpe-take to the high seas from Jamaica on a shop the crew renames Deliverance. It is the dawn of the eighteenth century, when girls stay home and sew while men sail the high seas finding adventure, danger, and gold.

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