The Brynsquilver Novels (#1-3) by Jay Taverner
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Overview: Jay Taverner is the pseudonym for the writing partnership of Jacky Bratton and Jane Traies. The pair were a long-established lesbian partnership who met as undergraduates at St Anne’s College, Oxford in 1963. Their series of books deals with historical lesbian characters.
Genre: Fiction > Romance FF, Historical
Rebellion (#1)
Somerset, England, 1715 ‘All she could think of was Isabella Wiston – Bell. Bell had cast a spell upon her which had still not broken. Hope had set eyes upon her and piped and danced for her alone. Then over the wassail cup their eyes had met. No longer the young mistress of the manor, glimpsed distantly in church or darkly on horseback against the sky, but a girl, a soft face candlelit and startled. Hope fell asleep thinking of that moment.’ To get closer to Bell, Hope becomes her maid. But as their attachment blossoms, the Jacobite uprising sweeps through the land and brings violence to their door. After Bell’s family is targeted by King George’s troops, the two girls find themselves on the run. They seek refuge in Bath before fleeing north through the Welsh Borders. Amid the turmoil, a cottage called Brynsquilver offers some sanctuary. But when mortal danger threatens, how will the two girls and their love survive?
Hearts & Minds (#2)
‘She had a sharp pang of longing for home: not just for Hope, whose absence she felt all the time like a physical pain, but for her own comfortable cottage, low and dark, nestled like a sleeping cat in the lap of the Shropshire hills.’ It is 1735 and Bell has been wrenched away from her beloved Hope to stay with her brother in a fiery new world of industry and ironworks. Lonely back at Brynsquilver, Hope gives shelter to Lucy, a poor runaway who has been persecuted for her dark skin. Hope and Bell feel the ties between them loosen as they are drawn to friends old and new. Then a self-appointed witchfinder rides into the hills and loyalties are tested to the core. With a colourful cast of travelling players, elixir pedlars and passing women, the story builds to a heart-stopping climax in the Assize Court at Shrewsbury.
Something Wicked (#3)
2002: When her girlfriend leaves, Scotty escapes London to stay with old friends in the Shropshire countryside. But she soon discovers that rural life is far from quiet. Stories of drug-dealing, witchcraft and abuse abound – but who is committing the real crimes? As Scotty investigates, she is deeply drawn to Helen, the local librarian (whose husband is ‘the possessive type’), and falls under the spell of a derelict cottage. Her old city life seems far away as she allows herself to wonder if she could find true love and a home in the hills. A witty spin-off from the eighteenth-century Brynsquilver romances, with a web of connections to the people and places in the earlier novels.
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