THE YEATS-GONNE SERIES
A Life Before (Sample)
A Life Before (Sample)
BOOK ONE: 1886-1889 (SAMPLE)
This is a free sample of the first chapters of A Life Before.
Born into privilege but betrayed by those who should have protected her, Maud Gonne is determined to live at full blaze—breaking every rule of 1880s convention, if that is what it takes. But even the cleverest, most spirited young woman cannot entirely outrun the age she was born into.
Told in the magical voice of Rosy Cross, 'the oldest woman in Ireland,' A Life Before is the story of Maud Gonne and W.B. Yeats's coming-of-age.
A true-life story of first love and first power and a portrait of two larger-than-life characters before the world knew their names.
This sample contains the opening chapters of Maud Gonne's story, introducing this English heiress who will soon be persuaded to become Ireland’s Joan of Arc and the seductive French politician who persuades her away from becoming an actress.
Also the first of ten conversations that W.B. Yeats has with the key people who shape him and his poetry—and whom he must outgrow if he is to be worthy of Gonne, the woman he's determined to make his muse.
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This is a free sample of the first chapters of A Life Before.
Born into privilege but betrayed by those who should have protected her, Maud Gonne is determined to live at full blaze—breaking every rule of 1880s convention, if that is what it takes. But even the cleverest, most spirited young woman cannot entirely outrun the age she was born into.
Told in the magical voice of Rosy Cross, 'the oldest woman in Ireland,' A Life Before is the story of Maud Gonne and W.B. Yeats's coming-of-age.
A true-life story of first love and first power and a portrait of two larger-than-life characters before the world knew their names.
This sample contains the opening chapters of Maud Gonne's story, introducing this English heiress who will soon be persuaded to become Ireland’s Joan of Arc and the seductive French politician who persuades her away from becoming an actress.
Also the first of ten conversations that W.B. Yeats has with the key people who shape him and his poetry—and whom he must outgrow if he is to be worthy of Gonne, the woman he's determined to make his muse.