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The House Of Lanyon (Hardcover)

de Valerie Anand (Author)
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The War of the Roses rages around the Lanyons in Exmoor, England, prosperous tenant farmers of the landed Sweetwater family. Peter Lanyon and his wife, Liza, bridle at his father Richard's attempts to run their lives as Richard, who hides a dark secret, tries to raise the family's station. Through war, intrigue and natural disaster, Peter and Liza love each other in their fashion, though each has a great lost love, and their mistakes come back to haunt them. As the Lanyons find favor with the Duke of Gloucester (who will be Richard III), it may be a case of being careful what you wish for. There's not enough historical detail to place the Lanyons in their time and place, and the book's pace is slow, but Anand, who writes the Ursula Blanchard mysteries as Fiona Buckley, has a light touch that carries this family saga. (Nov.)
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When two ambitious families occupy the same patch of English soil, rivalry is sure to take root and f lourish. A glimmer of initiative swells into blind desire, and minor hurts, nursed with jealousy, fester into a malignant hatred. When a bitter feud is born the price for this wild and beautiful piece of ground will take more than three generations to settle.

Richard Lanyon answers to no one save the aristocratic Sweetwater family, owners of the land he farms. His bitter resentment is legend within the bounds of their tiny Exmoor community, but as their tenant, Richard Lanyon must do their bidding. Still, even noblemen do not have the power to contain ruthless ambition, and the Sweetwaters are no exception. Driven to succeed, Richard is prepared to take what is not his, and to forfeit the happiness of his family to claim the entitlements he lusts for.

But no family can grow and succeed without the nurturing hand of a woman, and even Richard Lanyon knows this. Better still if the woman is clever and hardworking and can bear many sons, and with this in mind Richard arranges a marriage for his only son, Peter. But matches based on pragmatism often hide a multitude of sins, and so it is within the house of Lanyon. Although Peter and his bride, Liza Weaver, settle into marriage, each harbors a broken heart, lost dreams and unspoken secrets. And should their secrets ever be revealed, all that Richard has worked for will be destroyed.

Surviving the betrayals of the past means keeping one foot in the present, and an eye to the future. For it is the next generation that holds the power to achieve in one moment what eluded Richard Lanyon for a lifetime.

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4.0étoiles sur 5 The House Of Lanyon, Fév 12 2008
Par Tami Brady "Whole Health Therapist" (Calgary, Canada) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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The House of Lanyon has its fair share of secrets and hidden lies. Richard Lanyon, the patriarch, wasn't much of a family man. His business was his life. His wife was a weak woman in his eyes. All but one of her children died due to feebleness. Peter, the one that survived was hardly a suitable heir. If the boy had his way, he'd have married that fishermen's daughter. That is had she not mysteriously disappeared.

Perhaps, the match that Richard arranged wasn't much better. Time would tell on that one. Liza was a hardworking woman with a head for business. Her heart, however, belonged to a priest to be named Christopher. Thus laid the foundations of the marriage of Peter and Liza, both madly in love with another but trying to make a good life together for the sake of the family reputation.

The House of Lanyon is a great book to read on a cold and blustery winter weekend. It truly is an epic story about the lives and loves of a family in 15th century England.
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2.0étoiles sur 5 Skip this, Déc 14 2007
Par Misfit (Seattle, WA USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This so called "epic story" from Anand that offers a supposed "vivid portrait of fifteenth century English life" (to quote from the book jacket) is to this reader as flat, lifeless and bland as a piece of cardboard. The basic premise of the story is of the Lanyons who are tenants to the aristocratic Sweetwaters and bear a decades long hatred for each other and in the case of Richard Lanyon feeds an ambition to better their lot in life and to wreak revenge on the hated Sweetwaters. Yawn. Every twist and all too predictable plot turn in the story one could see coming a mile away. I had a very hard time sticking with this book until the final and not too surprising finish, especially since there was not one character in this book that I even cared about.

I wholly agree with the other reviewer on Amazon US who stated that this story could have been placed in any century, there just was no sense of time or place as one might expect in a historical novel. Worse yet, the back story of the battle for supremacy between the Lancasters, Yorks and eventually Tudor houses was virtually non-existent, even though Richard and eventually Peter went to serve during the wars -- even the battle at Bosworth Field only got several pages worth of coverage.

All in all a very mediocre book, and I'm having a hard time believing this book comes from the same author who wrote The King of The Wood. If you are dead set on reading this for yourself, I strongly urge you to get it from the library first, and then buy it if you love it. Otherwise, skip this. Two stars.
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