by Lona Manning (Author)
A Marriage of Attachment continues the story of Fanny Price as she struggles to build her own life after leaving her rich uncle's home. Fanny teaches sewing to poor working-class girls in London, while trying to forget her first love, Edmund Bertram, who is trapped in a disastrous marriage with Mary Crawford. Together with her brother John and her friend, the writer William Gibson, she discovers a plot that threatens someone at the highest levels of government. Meanwhile, Fanny's brother William fights slavery on the high seas while longing for the girl he loves. Filled with romance, suspense and even danger, A Marriage of Attachment takes the familiar characters from Mansfield Park on a new journey.A Marriage of Attachment is the sequel to A Contrary Wind.