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The Memory Palace

by Christie Dickason

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A country-house saga shaped by love, memory and Civil War

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A country-house saga shaped by love, memory and Civil War

Set in Hampshire in 1639 as civil conflict nears, this historical novel centres on Zeal Beester, whose pregnancy and absent lover leave her vulnerable to Puritan persecution. Her marriage to the older soldier Philip Wentworth offers protection, while his accounts of El Dorado keep the idea of her banished lover alive. Zeal’s rebuilding of Hawkridge House into the “Memory Palace”—at once maze, theatre and estate—gives the novel a concrete architectural expression for private longing and contested power. Religious hostility, social danger and the approaching Civil War tighten around a household marked by secrecy, jealousy and the possibility of loss.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers of seventeenth-century English historical fiction
  • Fans of country-house settings and family secrets
  • Readers interested in love stories set against political and religious upheaval

Themes

Memory and architectureForbidden lovePuritan persecutionEnglish Civil WarJealousy and revenge

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Book overview

An epic love story set in the period of Music and Silence, for readers of Rose Tremain and Philippa Gregory.

1639. Zeal Beester, mistress of the rolling Hampshire estate of Hawkridge, is pregnant, unwed, and the King has banished her lover to the New World. The Puritan Praise-God Gifford will have her burnt at the stake for depravity.

To save herself and the child, Zeal becomes the wife of Philip Wentworth, an ageing soldier and adventurer. But Philip's extraordinary tales of El Dorado only remind her of her exiled lover.

As the chaos of Civil War approaches, Zeal begins to rebuild Hawkridge House as the Memory Palace and the secret map of her heart. Part maze, part theatre, part great country house, it enrages the Puritans and inspires in one twisted soul a hatred and envy that only death will satisfy.

Should the King be killed, Zeal's lover may return only to find Zeal and the child in their graves...

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