Have read 6 other Anya Seton novels and this one and Katherine are my favorites. Welcome back. She struggled across the country with a man who ran a medicine show, fell in love with him, and was convinced they were married by an old scout who ran an inn. This historical fiction novel was a little difficult for me to get started just because of the many Spanish words in the beginning, but I'm about half-way through and it's interesting. It is a rare book that makes me weep. She turned and went in to the Cathedral and prayed. To help, we provided some of our favorites.Use the Alibris Advanced Search Page to narrow your search criteria and find your item!From new releases to oldies, discover your next favorite album and artist!Like Classical Music? Historical fiction based on an old Santa Fe legend.Not Anya Seton's best. She researched through the memories of the elders in the area, the scant records available from the late 1800's and has presented us a piece of thought-provoking historical fiction. The story of Fey Cameron, a Scots-Spanish girl born in Sante Fe when it was newly American, ranges from the American southwest across the Sante Fe trail to St. Louis and on to New York in the Gilded Age. The story moves along very rapidly and has some of her very best characters in addition to Fey the strong heroine in the novel. Later, when Fey was about 7, her father was killed when he went to help a fellow doctor with a surgery. Simeon not only finds himself close to losing nearly everything financially, but Terry Dillon reemerges to disrupt their lives. She enjoyed Have read 6 other Anya Seton novels and this one and Katherine are my favorites.

Seton works her magic on historical fiction once again. The author had obviously done a lot of detailed research and wanted to ensure that her readers were aware of it.

Start by marking “The Turquoise” as Want to Read: Anya Seton has 22 books on Goodreads with 2344 ratings. Seton, at her best, has a gaudy vitality all her own, and a sure sense of theatre. Her mother died in childbirth so she lived the first years of her life with her father who was a Scottish doctor. The life story of an amazing woman born in Santa Fe. After securing a discreet divorce for Fey, she and Simeon marry and achieve happiness. Her high born spanish mother died in childbirth, and her father (the disinherited younger son of a highland laird) died when she was a young girl, leaving her to be raised by a lower class mexican family. However, there were some sections that I found boring and/or frustrating. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read The Turquoise: A Novel. She's orphaned at a young age and dreams of a better life. What a find! I really enjoyed the writing style.When I first read this one (over 30 years ago) it was not among my favorites of Seton's. The Turquoise Get cash back by selling your textbooks through Alibris. Shop now. The Turquoise is no exception as she tells the compelling tale of Santa Fey Cameron, whose heritage is the unlikely combination of Scottish and Spanish parents. The Turquoise: A Novel - Ebook written by Anya Seton. 0340157003 The spellbinding story of a gifted woman who leaves the magic mountains of her native New Mexico for the chaotic New York of the 1870s. It is a fictional story of the life of Fey Cameron set against an historical background of the United States and The book focuses on Fey Cameron, from her humble childhood in Born in 1850 of a Spanish mother and a Scotsman in New Mexico, and orphaned at a young age in the town for whom she was named, Santa Fe (Fey) Cameron is taken in and raised by dutiful but apathetic neighbors. “Seton, at her best, has a gaudy vitality all her own, and a sure sense of theatre. The spellbinding story of a gifted woman who leaves the magic mountains of her native New Mexico for the chaotic New York of the 1870s. Margate, 1786. First published in 1946, The Turquoise was the great historical novelist Anya Seton s third novel and sold close to a million copies. It is the story of a beautiful, gifted woman who leaves the magic mountains of her native New Mexico for the piratical, opulent, gaslit New York of the 1870s--only to end her search for happiness back in the high, thin air of Santa Fe. Yet when Molly needs Nicholas most, he lets her down.With her hopes in tatters, Molly is forced to flee Margate for London, where she finds herself struggling to survive. 'To read Seton is to enter into another time with such conviction that it seems as real as the present' (Philippa Gregory) Santa Fe Cameron, named for the place of her birth, is the child of a Spanish mother and a Scotch father and inherited from both a high degree of psychic ability.