Two people are trapped by their social class in Scotland in the era leading up to the American Revolution: Mack is a serf trapped to work in a coal mine for his lifetime enslaved to the land and mineowner; Lizzie, born into the owner class, but to a man who mismanaged his estate and then died. Her mother has no idea how to manage it and is about to lose it. Lizzie is expected to marry the son of a nearby landowner who she detests. The story follows the action to London and then to Virginia.
The thing I found really frustrating about The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End exists here also, albeit in shorter form: a villain so evil as to make me start wondering how to go back in time and assascinate him. This is a page-turner.
I have now started Angel Time by Anne Rice. Told in the first person, our narrator confides in us his love of missions and peace, somewhat ironic for a hit man.
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