An accomplished student and heiress to a great title, Genevieve has been brought up as a Proper Young Lady, carefully instructed in the Covenants the inflexible laws governing women of her class. But she must soon take up the time houred responsibilities of womanhood: that is to marry a bleman of her father's choosing and bear a child at the age of thirty. But Genevieve has ather side to her: the girl who remembers all the stories and the secret kwledge learned from her mother, w long dead, the girl who yearns to heed the call of the sea though she has never even seen the vast waters that cover most of the surface of her home planet of Haven. And as her fate, to marry the loathsome Prince Delgar, fast approaches, she begins to question the ties that bind her: why blewomen must wait until thirty to have children, why so many die in childbirth, while peasants thrive into their eighties, and, most of all, why she must wed a man she detests, rather than the commoner she adores. Genevieve must uncover bitter truths about the seemingly backward planet of Haven, and fight for the rights of womankind, if she is to save her home world from total oblivion.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
ISBN-10
057506904x
ISBN-13
9780575069046
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96618066
Dimensions
Weight
810g
Height
242mm
Width
170mm
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
London
Spine
40mm
Content Note
Maps
Author Biography
Sheri S. Tepper is the author of several resoundingly acclaimed novels, Including the Arthur C. Clarke Award nominated Gibbon's Decline and Fall, Six Moon Dance, The Family Tree, A Plague of Angels, Sideshow and Beauty, which was voted Best Fantasy Novel of the Year by readers of Locus
