by Joan Aiken · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783257224757
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«Fanny und Scylla oder Die zweite Frau. Roman.» is the historical novel by Joan Aiken, published by Diogenes Verlag in paperback (696 pages, in German).
Set in the late 18th century, the plot interweaves two stories: in England, young Fanny Paget endures an unhappy marriage to Captain Paget; in India, her cousins Scylla and Carolman flee a vengeful maharaja. Their paths converge at the Hermitage, where a violent confrontation will change their lives.
It is the second title in the Paget Family Saga series. Translated from English by Brigitte Mentz; originally published as «The Weeping Ash».
For readers of period dramas, romances, and adventures set in the 18th century.
Joan Delano Aiken was an English writer specialising in supernatural fiction and children's alternative history novels. In 1999 she was awarded an MBE for her services to children's literature. For The Whispering Mountain, published by Jonathan Cape in 1968, she won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a book award judged by a panel of British children's writers, and she was a commended runner-up for the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British writer. She won an Edgar Allan Poe Award (1972) for Night Fall.
