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"Dangerous Freedom"

Publisher: Papillote Press Shop: https://www.amazon.com... ISBN: 9781999776862 Category: English fiction

Elizabeth d’Aviniere — Dido’s married name — navigates states of duality in the late eighteenth century: mixed-race, installed at London’s Kenwood House yet ever-aware of her dubious grasp of respectability, fearful as a young mother for the possible fate of her children at the hands of slave catchers. Scott illuminates the obscure areas of Elizabeth’s freedoms, rendering overlooked domestic and social exchanges in luminous narrative portraiture. In its finest moments, the novel tugs at connective emotional tissue between Elizabeth and her mother, revealing chasms of love and loss.