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Celia Garth
Celia Garth: A Novel | Gwen Bristow
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Gwen Bristow’s New York Times–bestselling historical novel about a dressmaker who spies for the rebel cause in Revolutionary-era Charleston. A bustling port city, Charleston, South Carolina, is the crossroads of the American Revolution where supplies and weapons for the rebel army must be unloaded and smuggled north. From the window of the dressmaker’s shop where she works, lovely Celia Garth, recently engaged to the heir to a magnificent plantation, watches all of this thrilling activity. When the unthinkable occurs and the British capture and occupy Charleston, bringing fiery retribution to the surrounding countryside, Celia sees her world destroyed. The rebel cause seems lost until the Swamp Fox, American General Francis Marion, takes the fight to the British—and one of his daring young soldiers recruits Celia to spy on the rebels’ behalf. Out of the ashes of Charleston and the Carolina countryside will rise a new nation—and a love that will change Celia Garth forever in this historical romance hailed by the Chicago Tribune as “an exciting tale of love and war in the tradition of Gone with the Wind.”
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Allylu
Celia Garth: A Novel | Gwen Bristow
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This is the first of my female spies books. I was drawn to this one because Celia is a seamstress and I was interested to see how the spying was woven in. It depicted things about the southern states during the American Revolution that I hadn‘t thought about. I was disappointed in the amount of spying involved, but I liked the story very much. It seemed as if it could be true. #100YEARS100BOOKS #67 #BookSpinBingo #24 #BFC21

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 3y
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Crinoline_Laphroaig
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I loved this tale of Celia Garth Revolutionary War Spy that I first read as a teenager. Was so excited when I found a copy at garage sale in my 20s. #starsandstripes #jubilantjuly @RealLifeReading

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Lynnsoprano
Celia Garth: A Novel | Gwen Bristow
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While this technically was a reread, since it's probably 50 years since I first read it, it felt like new. I was surprised by how much came back to me. I can't think of any other historical fiction that I've read that's set during the Revolutionary War. This felt well researched and is definitely well written, although the ending is just a bit off, as if the author wasn't quite sure how to conclude it. Recommended.

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Lynnsoprano
Celia Garth: A Novel | Gwen Bristow
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#currentread I picked this up on a Kindle special, and started reading it the other day. Then I realized that I had read it in high school. My parents had it in hardback, and it must have been one of the first historical fiction books I ever read. Still good, but it shows its age. Set in and near Charleston during the Revolutionary War, black characters are referred to as "colored." It's a long time since I've seen that.

Reviewsbylola Sounds similar to Gone With the Wind in that regard! 7y
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