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The Wideacre estate is bankrupt. The villagers are living in poverty and Wideacre Hall is a smoke-blackened ruin. But, in the Dower House, two children are being raised in protected innocence.

Equal claimants to the estate, rivals for the love of the village, they are tied by a secret childhood betrothal but forbidden to marry. Only one can be the favored child. Only one can inherit the magical understanding between the land and the Lacey family that can make the Sussex village grow green again. Only one can be Beatrice Lacey's true heir.

Sensual, gripping, sometimes mystical, The Favored Child sweeps the reader irresistibly into the eighteenth century, a revolutionary period in English history. This rich and dramatic novel continues the saga of the Lacey family started in Philippa Gregory's bestselling and enduringly popular Wideacre.

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From: Amazon Posted: Sep 03, 2008 Type: User Review More of the Same... Wideacre Revisited...

I love Philippa Gregory and thoroughly enjoyed Wideacre, the first book in this trilogy. The Favored Child, which "continues" the story, is actually more of the same. As is typical of Gregory's works, the book is well-written and the characters...
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From: Amazon Posted: Aug 30, 2008 Type: User Review BLECH!!!

It's bad.
It's painful to read.
I think Gregory enjoys torturing her characters a little TOO much.
I read pretty well until about page 450 or so, but I just couldn't take it anymore. I skimmed the rest. I HAD to see what happened...
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From: Amazon Posted: Aug 05, 2008 Type: User Review thoroughly hated this book

I have to say I couldnt finish this book, mostly because i threw it across the room a few too many times. The abuse and willingness to take the abuse the heroine endures is not only impossible to read, you cant even feel sympathy for her anymore....
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From: Amazon Posted: Jun 29, 2008 Type: User Review Couldn't Even Finish It

Ugh...I am utterly disgusted, and not by the incest. I really wanted to like this book, and for about 400 pages, I was on board. While I didn't think any of the characters are either believable or reliable (same went for Wideacre), I was hoping...
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From: Amazon Posted: Jun 24, 2008 Type: User Review The Favored Child

This is the second book in the Wideacre series and follows Beatrice's daughter, Julia. Out of Beatrice's two incestuous children, Julia inherits her 'good' side (in tune with the land and a natural with animals) whereas her son Richard...
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