White Rose Rebel

by Janet Paisley

Overview

Anne Farquharson is a Highland girl – tempestuous, bold, determined to be her own woman. Yet the clan Farquharson is threatened. The Highlands suffer at the domineering hand of English King George, while there are rumours that Bonnie Prince Charlie, exiled to France, is raising an army in a bid for the throne.

When Anne marries a clan chief and creates a shaky alliance, she is doing more than taking his bed. Soon she is drawn into the heart of a brutal and bloody conflict, and as the Jacobite rebellion escalates, she and her husband find themselves on opposite sides of the battlefield.

White Rose Rebel is inspired by the true story of a Highland heroine who risked everything for her country and its rightful king.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780141910567
Publisher:	Penguin UK
Publication date:	06/05/2008
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	400
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	12 - 18 Years

About the Author

Janet Paisley’s oeuvre includes five poetry collections, two of short fiction, a novella and numerous plays, radio, TV and film scripts. Accolades include a prestigious Creative Scotland Award (Not for Glory, stories), the Peggy Ramsay Memorial Award (Refuge, a play) and a BAFTA nomination (Long Haul, a short film). Her poetry and short stories have been translated into seven languages and are widely anthologized. White Rose Rebel is her first novel.

Editorial Reviews

This richly textured historical romance from Scottish poet and short story writer Paisley reimagines the story of Col. Anne Farquharson, a real-life leader in the Jacobite uprising of 1745. When Bonnie Prince Charlie returns to Scotland in an attempt to take the throne, the English naturally seek to suppress his supporters. Aeneas McIntosh, chief of Scots Clan Chatton, reluctantly takes a commission with the English army, believing it the best way to preserve his clan and their land. His younger and far more impetuous wife, Anne, responds by joining with a former lover, Alexander McGillivray, and raising an army in support of the prince's ultimately doomed claim. Aeneas and Anne continues to love and lust after one another, despite their political differences. A complex, passionate love triangle; a realistic look at the horrific consequences of war; and a balanced, satisfying resolution mark Paisley's notable first novel. (May)

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Publishers Weekly

Wife faces husband in opposing armies, as the Scots fight the English in this feisty, female-centered debut based on the historical figure of "Colonel Anne."Scottish author Paisley sets her cinematic novel during the Jacobite rebellion of 1745, when the Highland clans rose up against their English oppressors in support of Bonnie Prince Charlie. Headstrong, highly sexed Anne Farquharson, the daughter of a chief, has recently married Aeneas, another chief and a match for her passionate nature. But Aeneas, in debt to the English-who are taxing the Scots, imposing new laws and trying to erode their culture-is obliged to support the government by joining the Black Watch forces. Anne, accustomed to making her own decisions in the Scottish manner, calls out the clan to join the Prince and helps win a sequence of battles. Despairing at Aeneas's actions, she also resumes her relationship with ex-lover MacGillivray. After the defeats, Aeneas returns home as Anne's prisoner. Prince Charles invades England but stops short of taking London and eventually the English regroup to inflict a brutal defeat on the Scots at Culloden, where MacGillivray dies. Retribution on the Scots is terrible and Anne is arrested but not hanged; she is instead left in Aeneas's custody. The couple is finally reunited; their culture may be crushed, but not its spirit. A tragic slice of history converted into popular, impassioned fiction.

Kirkus Reviews