The worldwide group was formed following News Corp's 1990 acquisition of William Collins & Sons.
In 1987, Harper & Row, as it had then become, was acquired by News Corporation. The original Harper Brothers Company was established in New York City in 1817 and over the years published the works of Mark Twain, the Bronte Sisters, Thackeray, Dickens, John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. In the UK, the Glasgow-based William Collins & Sons was founded in 1819 and published a range of bibles, atlases and dictionaries, later including classic authors HG Wells, Agatha Christie, JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis. With a heritage stretching back nearly 200 years, HarperCollins is one of the world's foremost English-language publishers, offering the best quality content right across the spectrum, from cutting-edge contemporary fiction to digital hymnbooks and pretty much everything in between. Finding liberty for others leads them to splendid liberty for themselves. The journey of discovery both women make through docks and prisons, government offices and brothels, palatial houses and smugglers hideaways, not only allows them to find the missing persons but also to forge an unlikely friendship and to find remarkable lovers. One woman, a young aristocrat recently saved by the death of her husband from a brutal marriage, is searching for the imprisoned son of a colonial friend: the other, a self-made woman, is looking for her daughter and companions, rescued from their destroyed ship but somehow lost on arrival in Britain. But where the French captured by the British navy are recognized prisoners of war, the Americans are the non-combatants of their era.
Britain is at war with the French and the rebellious American colonies.
Two women, both searching for apparently missing people, meet in the chaos of wartime Plymouth. Even though it is set in the eighteenth century, this novel, like her previous one, A Catch of Consequence, has rare contemporary echoes. A remarkable, sparkling historical novel by the author of A Catch of Consequence.ĭiana Norman's second book for us is another brilliant, stylish historical novel.
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