In this fantasy of manners we have two displaced young kings, one shopkeeper's daughter who went away an ugly duckling and returns five years later a beautiful and highly skilled swan, and a young queen who is master of all she surveys . . . until she isn't. The result is the last summer of love and adventure on the eve of cataclysm. The Wicked Skill, from a poem by John Donne, duels and dances with discovery of the many facets of love-set against a background of revolution, one conducted through manners, the other by swashbuckling youths who think life is a game . . .
- | Author: Sherwood Smith
- | Publisher: Book View Cafe
- | Publication Date: May 17, 2022
- | Number of Pages: 421 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1636320619
- | ISBN-13: 9781636320618