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Amazon:
Women of Courage by Tim Vicary, an omnibus edition of 3 of his historical drama novels set in the UK and Ireland, some of which we've previously received free in individual editions:
The Blood Upon the Rose set in 1919 Ireland during The Troubles (
Wikipedia), originally out from Simon & Schuster in 1992,
Cat and Mouse set in 1914 England and Ireland during the outbreak of WWI, originally out from Simon & Schuster in 1993, and
The Monmouth Summer, set during the titular English rebellion (
Wikipedia), apparently a newly-written tale.
In Cat & Mouse, British suffragette Sarah Becket faces prison for demonstrating for women's right to vote. When her sister Deborah comes to rescue her, the sisters expose a serious sexual scandal at the heart of the British political establishment, which Sarah's husband, Jonathan, is determined to keep secret at all costs. It is 1914, and the threat of the Great War rumbles closer.
Five years later, in The Blood Upon the Rose, the young Irish aristocrat and medical student, Catherine O'Connell-Gort , fights for an end to British rule in Ireland. She is in love with a young IRA Volunteer, but her father, a senior officer in British military intelligence, insists that she marry a scarred war veteran, a dangerous assassin on a secret mission to murder the IRA leader Michael Collins. What secrets can she keep, and who will she betray - her family or her lover, her country or her class? And what results will flow from her dreadful decisions?
In The Monmouth Summer, young Ann Carter is torn by equally agonizing choices. In 1685 the Puritan people of her Devon village rise up in revolt in support of the Duke of Monmouth against the Catholic king of England, James II. They are hugely determined, but poorly armed and led. Ann's father, Adam, fears if he dies he will leave his wife and daughters destitute, unless Ann marries her solid, dependable childhood sweetheart, Tom Goodchild. But although Ann loves her father, she is dazzled by the rich Royalist officer, Robert Pole. She knows this love is sinful, but when her father is captured and sentenced to death, she can think of only way to save him ...
Each book is based on careful research. These three women - Sarah Becket, Catherine O'Connell-Gort and Ann Carter - are all imagined characters, but the historical events in their stories really happened, and women like Sarah, Catherine and Ann faced real choices every bit as dramatic and difficult as those described in these stories.