Helpful Score: 3
If family sagas are your thing this is the book for you. The Bigelows and the Hilyard clans come to the cape in the early history of America. This book follows the families as their families intertwine until the present day.
Helpful Score: 3
Great historical novel. Iloved it. A smooth blending of past and present works like a pendulum, swinging back to the Pilgrams and forward to their descendants. Martin is a great story teller.
Helpful Score: 2
Informative and kept my until the end
Helpful Score: 2
Read this many years ago, and I still remember it. The history part is great.
Helpful Score: 1
Two families, both carried by the Mayflower across stormy seas..both destined to generations of proud leadership, shameful intrigue, and passion for the rocky crest of land that became their heritage...
This is the story of the Bigelow and Hilyard clns, from their first years on America's shores, through the fury of her wars and the glory of her triumphs, to our own time when young Geoff Hilyard must fight to save both his marriage to a Bigelow heir and the windswept coast he loves. It is a struggle that will take him deep into the past, to a centuries-old feud that never died.
...And on a dangerous quest for a priceless relic of American history that has lain hidden in the Cape for over two hundred years.
This is the story of the Bigelow and Hilyard clns, from their first years on America's shores, through the fury of her wars and the glory of her triumphs, to our own time when young Geoff Hilyard must fight to save both his marriage to a Bigelow heir and the windswept coast he loves. It is a struggle that will take him deep into the past, to a centuries-old feud that never died.
...And on a dangerous quest for a priceless relic of American history that has lain hidden in the Cape for over two hundred years.
