The Other Life of Mary English by G D Harper
The Other Life Of Mary English by GD Harper The Other life of Mary English by G D Harper is published by Ginger Cat. My thanks to Glynn and the publisher for sending me a copy to review and to Rachel's Random Resources for inviting me onto the book tour. Synopsis Two Different Women. One Shared Destiny. Mary English, a dockworker’s daughter from Faversham, England, travels to South America to escape a scandal from her past. She ends up running a cacao plantation in Colombia, at a time when women were not legally allowed to own businesses there. Manuela Sáenz, tempestuous lover of Venezuelan revolutionary Simón Bolívar, serves as a colonel in his army. She joins him in battle to fight the Spanish and twice saves his life from assassination attempts. This is the story of two real-life remarkable women, both fighting oppression, hardship and danger in 1820s Colombia, who come together to change the course of a nation’s history. My Thoughts This is a fascinating book about two rema...