Review: The Other Life of Mary English

 

Two Different Women. One Shared Destiny.

Mary English, a dockworker’s daughter from Faversham, England, travels to South America to escape a scandal from her past. She ends up running a cacao plantation in Colombia, at a time when women were not legally allowed to own businesses there.

Manuela Sáenz, tempestuous lover of Venezuelan revolutionary Simón Bolívar, serves as a colonel in his army. She joins him in battle to fight the Spanish and twice saves his life from assassination attempts.

This is the story of two real-life remarkable women, both fighting oppression, hardship and danger in 1820s Colombia, who come together to change the course of a nation’s history.

Review

The Other Life of Mary English: How two remarkable women changed the course of South American history by G.D. Harper
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

What a interesting bit of women's history! I am sad to say (like many other reviewers) that my knowledge of South American feminist history is sadly lacking. I was fascinated by this story - constantly jumping online to sort fact from fiction. The writing is very accessible so it's a great start to learning more about women's struggles in South America. GD Harper creates two interesting and relatable characters to fill-in-the-blanks left by history. They are fascinating women who use their power to try and create a more fair world for everyone.

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Purchase Links

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Other-Life-Mary-English-remarkable-ebook/dp/B0GR99313V

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Author Bio –

GD Harper became a full-time author in 2016. He has written three psychological thrillers, Love’s Long Road, A Friend in Deed and Silent Money, and two historical novels, The Maids of Biddenden and Arden.

The Maids of Biddenden was the winner in the historical fiction category of the 2024 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, the largest international awards program for indie authors and independent publishers, and was shortlisted for the 2023 Selfies Award at the London Book Fair. Arden was placed third in the 2024 Yeovil International Literary Prize. The Other Life of Mary English was a finalist in the Eyelands Book Awards.  He has also been longlisted or shortlisted for fourteen other awards.

His books have had over one million page reads on Kindle Unlimited, been number one most downloaded e-book on Amazon UK, number three on Amazon worldwide, and garnered over two thousand reviews and ratings on Amazon and Goodreads, with an average rating score of 4.4.

He lives in East Sussex and, when not writing, can be found wild camping in the Scottish mountains or in the mosh pit at live music events.

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