Celina by Catherine Axelrad Groundswell Speaker 2024 Captain Wentworth

Captain Wentworth

The birth of a legend

wind and fire

AtlanticISBN: 9781838953430Extent: 464 pages

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Celina by Catherine Axelrad Groundswell Speaker 2024 Captain WentworthIn the late 1850s, Celina, aged fifteen, born into poverty, takes up work as a chambermaid for the Victor Hugo family living in exile in Guernsey. There she encounters the delicate balance between the professional and the personal, and the obligations placed upon her as her livelihood is at stake. Inspired by Hugo's cryptic diary notes and by letters from his wife, Catherine Axelrad restores to life the girl whose untimely death shook the Hugo family,