Varina : a novel / Charles Frazier.
Publication details: United Kingdom : Sceptre, 2018.Description: 356 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781473686144 (paperback)
- 9781473686137 (hardback)
- Davis, Varina, 1826-1906 -- Fiction
- Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 -- Fiction
- Davis, Varina, 1826-1906 -- Fiction
- Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 -- Fiction
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Man-woman relationships
- Presidents' spouses
- Man-woman relationships - Fiction
- Presidents' spouses - Fiction
- Confederate States of America - History - Fiction
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction
- United States
- Confederate States of America
- 813.6 23
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Historical | FRA | Available | 067840 |
Includes bibliographical references.
With her marriage prospects ruined in the wake of her father's financial decline, teenage Varina Howell decides her best option is to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects a life of security as a Mississippi landowner. When he instead pursues a career in politics and is appointed President of the Confederacy, it puts Varina at the white-hot centre of one of the darkest moments in American history - culpable regardless of her intentions. As the Confederacy prepares to surrender and she finds herself friendless and alone, Varina and her children escape Richmond. With her marriage in tatters and the country divided, they travel south, now fugitives with 'bounties on their heads, an entire nation in pursuit.