| Wealthy Beatrice Lacey has grown up on her family estate, Wideacre, and loves it more than anything. She is tormented by the fact that it will never be hers, as eighteenth century inheritence laws forbaade allowing a female child to inherit. Therefore, Beatrice plots her father's death, knowing that she can bend the legal heir, her brother, Harry, to her will. She seduces Harry, and the two begin an incestuous relationship, that is not stopped by Harry's marriage, or the birth of their children, or Beatrice's marriage. Beatrice is able to pass one of their children off as belonging to Harry and his wife, and the other as belonging to her husband. However, Beatrice grows more and more ruthless in her desire for complete ownership of wideacre, and her greed begins to suck the once prosperous estate dry. As a noose of her own making begins to tighten, Beatrice struggles to ensure the estate will go to her children. | ||
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Plot & Themes Tone of book? - thoughtful Time/era of story - 1600-1899 - Romance/Romance Problems Yes Kind of romance: Family, struggle with Yes Struggle with: - inheritance Kind of sex: - incest Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book Taboo sex story? Yes Main Character Gender - Female Profession/status: Age: - a teen Ethnicity/Nationality Main Adversary Identity: - society Setting How much descriptions of surroundings? - 5 () Europe Yes European country: - England/UK Farm/Ranch? Yes Farm/Ranch: - lot of descript of crop raising Misc setting Writing Style Sex in book? Yes What kind of sex: - vague references only - descript of kissing - impregnation/reproduction Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog |
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