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Meridon (Wideacre, Bk 3)
Meridon - Wideacre, Bk 3
Author: Philippa Gregory
Meridon knows she does not belong in the dirty, vagabond life of a gypsy bareback rider. The half-remembered vision of another life burns in her heart, even as her beloved sister, Dandy, risks everything for their future. Alone, Meridon follows the urgings of her dream, riding in the moonlight past the rusted gates, up the winding drive to a hou...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780743249317
ISBN-10: 0743249313
Publication Date: 7/2/2003
Pages: 576
Rating:
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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3.6 stars, based on 185 ratings
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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reviewed Meridon (Wideacre, Bk 3) on + 5 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
Book 3 of the Wideacre trilogy by Phillipa Gregory concludes the saga of the Lacey Family...the entire series is slighly bodice ripping, but in a more erudite way (if that makes sense) than expected. If you are a fan of historical fiction, try the Wideacre trilogy. It can be read alone, but it is certainly enhanced by its predecessors.
reviewed Meridon (Wideacre, Bk 3) on
Helpful Score: 2
This is the last, and in my opinion, the best book in the series.
samanark avatar reviewed Meridon (Wideacre, Bk 3) on + 39 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
With this elaborate tapestry of a young woman's life, the Lacey family trilogy ( Wideacre and The Favored Child ) comes to a satisfying conclusion. Meridon is the lost child whose legacy is the estate of Wideacre. She and her very different sister, Dandy, were abandoned as infants and raised in a gypsy encampment, learning horsetrading and other tricks of survival. They are indentured to a circus master whose traveling show is made successful by Meridon's equestrian flair and Dandy's seductive beauty on the trapeze. Meridon's escape from this world is fueled by pregnant Dandy's murder and her own obsessive dream of her ancestral home. After claiming Wideacre, Meridon succumbs for a while to the temptation of the "quality" social scene, but eventually she comes to her senses, and, in a tricky card game near the end of the saga, triumphs fully. The hard-won homecoming in this historical novel is richly developed and impassioned.
alterlisa avatar reviewed Meridon (Wideacre, Bk 3) on + 335 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
While I absolutely fell in love with every other book that Gregory wrote, I never really felt that way about this series. I read the first in the series and wasn't overly impressed and could not make myself finish the 2nd book. The third I didn't even attempt. Since the readers here mostly liked the book, I will save them and reread at a later date. See, people do read these reviews and let them influence them on books to read.
mizparker avatar reviewed Meridon (Wideacre, Bk 3) on + 87 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
This book was a very satisfying ending to the Wideacre trilogy. The first two books are hard to get through as the lead characters are among the most unsympathetic, horrible people I have ever read about. Nonetheless, you become interested in the story. With this book, Meridon is the third generation of Laceys at Wideacre, and you begin the book hoping that she will set everything right, based on the horrid scenarios in the last two books. When she makes it to Wideacre, she finds that everything has been set to rights in the absence of the Laceys over the past sixteen years. But will she leave it the happy place it has become, or ruin it? I had glimpses of her ruining it and I nearly put the book down several times, but she would have a thought that lent me some hope that all was not lost. The ending was very pleasing, although I would have liked to have seen her mother-in-law get her comeuppance. If you didn't like the first two, this book redeems the trilogy. If you did like the first two, this is a fitting closure.
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shukween avatar reviewed Meridon (Wideacre, Bk 3) on + 118 more book reviews
The last in Gregory's original 18th c series, Meridon is a fitting, if idealistic, conclusion to the Wideacre trilogy. Written in Gregory's easily readable narrative, it traces the story of the last heir to Wideacre as she lives, abandoned to the gypsies, and learns of her true identity and comes to take her place in Wideacre history. A necessary read for Gregory fans.
reviewed Meridon (Wideacre, Bk 3) on + 11 more book reviews
This is the third book in the Wideacre trilogy. This one was good but not quite as good as Wideacre and The Favored Child.
MKSbooklady avatar reviewed Meridon (Wideacre, Bk 3) on + 989 more book reviews
Rambling romance novel. Took many twists and turns. Glad when I finished it.
canewen avatar reviewed Meridon (Wideacre, Bk 3) on + 17 more book reviews
This series of books by Phillipa Gregory were very good. I had trouble putting them down! There are truly page turners to keep you up at night!
reviewed Meridon (Wideacre, Bk 3) on + 20 more book reviews
This is the last book in the trilogy and I liked it best.
MichiganderHolly avatar reviewed Meridon (Wideacre, Bk 3) on + 6 more book reviews
Meridon is the conclusion of Philippa Gregorys Wideacre Trilogy and tells the story of Meridon who has longed all her life for Wide a land she has never seen but cannot forget. Meridon grows up living a hard life as a child of gypsies with her twin sister Dandy. M has a gift for horses and she and her sister are sold to Robert Gower, a man with a horse show, so her stepfather no longer has to be responsible for them. Robert sees Ms gift with horses and trains her as a horsewoman and develops an aerial act where he trains Dandy and his son Jack as trapeze artists. After tragedy strikes M strikes out on her own and finally stumbles across Wideacre, the place of her dreams but finds herself at odds with the lifestyle of the Quality and how the estate is run.

I liked this one better than book 2 but I still think book 1 was the best of the three. I like that Gregory made Meridon a strong female character like Beatrice was. The only thing that irked me was I kept wondering what happened to some of the minor characters from book 2. It never said what happened to Ralph Megson or to the Haverings that owned Havering Hall beforehand. I felt it would have been a little bit better had this been explained and I also recommend that all the books be read back to back. I did read 2 and 3 back to back but I read the first one 6 months ago and forgot quite a bit of the back-story between then and now.
reviewed Meridon (Wideacre, Bk 3) on + 8 more book reviews
I read this without reading the other two and still enjoyed it.


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