Mount Vernon Love Story
A Novel of George and Martha Washington
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Narrated by:
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Linda Emond
About this listen
Always a lover of history, Mary Higgins Clark wrote this extensively researched biographical novel and titled it Aspire to the Heavens, after the motto of George Washington's mother. Published in 1969, the book was more recently discovered by a Washington family descendant and reissued as Mount Vernon Love Story. Dispelling the widespread belief that although George Washington married Martha Dandridge Custis, he reserved his true love for Sally Carey Fairfax, his best friend's wife, Mary Higgins Clark describes the Washington marriage as one full of tenderness and passion, as a bond between two people who shared their lives—even the bitter hardship of a winter in Valley Forge—in every way. In this author's skilled hands, the history, the love, and the man come fully and dramatically alive.©2008 Mary Higgins Clark; (P)2008 Simon & Schuster
I would like to have had more reasons to like MCW, (I am related to her!), but I felt cross with her the whole time, I was hoping to find more tenderness and passion in her, but was to be disappointed. Beautifully written, I will go back to it again, when I can bear it.
Loved it, lots of research has gone into the story
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