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Meet Kate Manning, Author of Gilded Mountain

Wed, Nov 09

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Brielle

Gilded Mountain is that rare thing: a historical page-turner that nimbly moves from gritty mining shafts to elegant drawing rooms of an earlier America with all its seething and striving, and where—then, as now—fates are decided by a stroke of luck or unluck, kindness and corruption, and reinvention

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Meet Kate Manning, Author of Gilded Mountain
Meet Kate Manning, Author of Gilded Mountain

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Nov 09, 2022, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM

Brielle, 610 South St, Brielle, NJ 08730, USA

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ABOUT THE BOOK...

Sylvie recounts the story of leaving her family’s snowbound mountain cabin to work in the local manor house for the Padgetts, owners of the marble mining company that employs her father and dominates the town. Sharp-eyed Sylvie is awed by the luxury around her, fascinated by her employer, the charming “Countess” Inge, and confused by the erratic affections of Jasper, the bookish heir to the family fortune. When she learns that a European King will soon arrive for a hunting party, her fairy-tale ideas of glamour and romance take a dark turn. She realizes the Padgetts’ lofty philosophical talk is at odds with the unfair labor practices that have enriched them. Their servants, the Gradys, formerly enslaved people, have long known this to be true—and are making plans to form a utopian community on the Colorado prairie.

Outside the manor walls, Moonstone is roiling with discontent. A…

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