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Lucy: Ultimate Survivor Kindle Edition

by Elizabeth Haywood (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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A dramatic and intriguing true Georgian tale of love, betrayal and survival. Lucy, a strong-willed girl from a wealthy family, was brought up on the English–Welsh border and married a Caribbean plantation owner, Sam Lord, for love, meanwhile he married her for her fortune, at a time when a woman was a chattel and everything she had, including her children, became her husband’s. Abused and imprisoned in Barbados, she escaped with the help of enslaved people. A vibrant intimate description of early 19th-century life – giving birth at sea, braving disease and cruelty, and witnessing the abject misery of slavery – this is a story of courage in adversity, a runaway marriage to an unfaithful husband and a descent from a life of pampered luxury to a struggle for survival in a far-off land.
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    March 31, 2021
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Dr Elizabeth Haywood has spent her career in business and has appeared on major TV and radio outlets across the UK. She lives with her husband, Lord Peter Hain, mostly in south Wales. This is her first book, born out of a desire to tell her ancestor's extraordinary story.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08YFCVBNQ
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd (March 31, 2021)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 31, 2021
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1985 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 551 pages
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Elizabeth Haywood

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Elizabeth Haywood was born in Scotland and worked in Europe and the USA but has spent most of her life in South Wales where she lives with her husband Lord Peter Hain. Her career spans the public, private and third sectors. She worked for the Confederation of British Industry, ran her own recruitment business, worked at the European Parliament and for the Welsh Development Agency. She gained an economics degree at Cardiff and a doctorate at Swansea and Paris. She won the Welsh Woman of the Year Award in 1994.

Always interested in family history, Elizabeth's imagination was fired as a child by tales of a wicked ancestor, Sam Lord of Barbados, but she only decided to try her hand at writing the story of his long-suffering and courageous wife Lucy decades later. This is her first book.

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Abbie L
5.0 out of 5 stars A Remarkable Story of Strength and Courage
Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2021
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Lucy's story is remarkable, and Elizabeth Haywood tells it beautifully. The book splits its time between Lucy's life in England and her married life on Barbados during a pivotal era, as slavery was first being challenged as an acceptable way of life. The details of Lucy's life are at once mundane and shocking, from the sheltered lives lived by women in society to the total lack of agency a woman experienced as she moved from her father's house to her husband's and beyond. The book delivers the best of historic fiction: I learned a lot and it made me think at the same time that it engaged and entertained.
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Helen Lloyd Jones
5.0 out of 5 stars A book worth reading.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 25, 2021
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Sometimes we forget how far we have travelled in the last two hundred years in the world of women’s rights. Lucy in our day, would have had a very different life. She is feisty, courageous, and intelligent. She undoubtedly would have had a successful career, been financially independent and a wonderful mother.

This book is well-researched and well-written but the subject is not easy reading. Watching Lucy being reeled in by a young gentleman who is thoroughly unpleasant is hard. It is her money the gentleman wants, not her and once married, she finds life very different. He has no qualms about physically abusing her. He breaks her bones, he locks her up, he tries to dominate her.

And yes, he acquires land in Barbados and he has slaves and he certainly doesn’t treat them well either.

But it is Lucy’s struggle that is the theme of the book. At that time, if a marriage ended in divorce, the father kept the children. How times have changed. One wonders how many women endured appalling physical and sexual abuse just to keep a roof over their children’s heads and to stay in their children’s lives.

A book worth reading.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent read, very accomplished first novel
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 30, 2022
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This is a beautifully written book, very accomplished for a first novel. The story is both fascinating and awful. The main character is very engaging and I galloped through the book, wanting to hear more and more about her. Thoroughly enjoyed this.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A true story that engages, shocks and makes you think
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 24, 2021
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Elizabeth Haywood takes the brave step of melding fact and fiction in this story of her ancestor, Lucy Lord, and pulls it off with aplomb. Based on diaries and letters, and meticulously researched, we follow Lucy from her privileged rural, English childhood, into a coercive marriage in Barbados. Haywood does not shy away from the challenges of writing about the slavery that supports the Lord family lifestyle, nor does she labour the fact that Lucy is, in many ways, just as much a chattel as her maid. I found this a good read on a long train journey, Lucy is good company, and her story a rare insight into the extraordinary life of a young woman in the early nineteenth century.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A riveting read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 2, 2021
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Great combination of history and a personal story which meant so much to the author. You are caught up in a love affair in an era when the woman ceded all her rights to her husband, with drastic consequences here. Hard to conceive in our own times, but full of admiration for a woman who comes through it all.
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Andrew
4.0 out of 5 stars This is a book for reading by the pool on your holidays!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 25, 2021
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I bought this book because I know Elizabeth and I was intrigued to understand this insight into her family history. I wasn't disappointed. Lucy is not a 'quick read'; Elizabeth has obviously thought long and hard about the characters in this book, and how to knit all of her sources together to make this a compelling account of a woman's journey in life. Lucy emerges as a tough, resilient yet compassionate human being. This is a book to take on holiday and read by the side of the pool.
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