The Rebel Daughters
By (Author) Lady Cecil Cameron
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperNorth
30th April 2025
27th February 2025
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Historical adventure fiction
Family life fiction
Narrative theme: Love and relationships
Narrative theme: Sense of place
Historical romance
823.92
Hardback
320
Width 159mm, Height 240mm, Spine 32mm
520g
An epic historical love story of freedom, courage and passion
It was the season of the beliye nochi when the sun never set and days slipped effortlessly into pearlescent nights. Tiny stars appeared, clusters of yellow in a paper sky. When you looked again, they were gone
Young Anna Brianski has led a charmed life between St Petersburg and the peace of the Russian countryside, until one terrible day in December 1825. Its a day that starts with winter sun and ends with blood on the ice. Until now, the only thing Anna has risked has been her nave heart. But one day the Decemberist Revolt changes everything. Her family, her freedom and her friends are all in grave danger, as she sees the caprice and cruelty of the Tsar at first hand.
Sweeping from high society to the frozen gulag, from the embrace of a lover to the tears of friends separated friends, The Rebel Daughters tells the story not just of the brave women who defied everyone by following the revolutionaries into the wilds of Siberia, but also how courage comes in many forms, the price we pay for defiance and how love can be greatest rebellion of all.
Praise for Cecils previous novels:
A heady brew of passion and treachery, intrigue and adventure.' Alan Titchmarsh
My historical novel of the year a journey to Italy to fall in love with. Rupert Everett
Spirited, suspense-filled and gorgeously romantic. Miranda Seymour
Cecil Cameron grew up on the Scottish border near Jedburgh, daughter of the Marquess and Lady Lothian. Her grandmother came from Naples and is the inspiration behind her writing. Cecil read history at London University and subsequently worked for Save the Children in Vietnam and the UK. Married to the Chief of the clan Cameron, she was made an OBE in 2002.