Customer Reviews
A happy ending to this depressing trilogy - By: rhinoa, 22 Aug 2007 
The final bookin the Wideacre trilogy & tells the story of Julia & Richard Lacey's daughter Meridon (Sarah Lacey). Her mother gave her up to travelling gypsies at birth to protect her from the Lacey madness.
After her gypsy sister is killed during a trapeez act by the father of her unborn baby, Meridon is consumed by grief & accidentally discovers Wideacre & her inheritance. She dashes everyones hopes as she wants to farm the land for a profit for herself.
On her deathbed she is tricked out of her inheritance, but somehow finds the strength to live & against all odds win back Wideacre & the man she loves. She is then able to give Wideacre to the poor.
A happy ending to a mostly depressing trilogy.
Disappointing end to the trilogy - By: Roman Clodia, 28 Sep 2006 
This book marks a departure from the first two, & takes Meridon, an abandoned gypsy girl who is secretly the heiress of Wideacre. I found the characteristion & plotting significantly weaker than the other two books & never felt involved with what was happening. I seems to me that Gregory just got bored with the series & was writing to order. The relationship between the characters was never more than superficial & the convenient ending of the heir of Laceys giving the land to a commune & living herselfin a common-man's cottage as his lover but not wife was just way too contrived.
I thought the other two books were flawed but interesting, but this one failed to either capture of hold my interest & brought the whole trilogy down with its too neat tying up of all the ends.
book nostalgia - By: , 12 Feb 2006 
When I think about this book, I feel book nostalgia. It's what you feel after reading the truly great historical fiction, when you've been seduced by the characters & by the intoxicating intrigue of historical fiction. The BUT is that you have to get through the two first books, which are to put plainly quite painfully depressing, so as to really understand what drives the women of Wideacre. Meridon is on a par with Phillippa Gregory's "The Queen's Fool".
A Fantastic Third! - By: Darla Portwood, 23 Jan 2006 
I couldn't wait to get my hands on the thirdin this triology! And I was thrilled with the book. The storyline is just terrific!
One of the best trilogy's i have read! - By: Rc Searle, 14 Aug 2005 I started with Wideacre & was gripped, even though I did not usually go for this type of historical fiction. I read that book twice, then realised that The Favoured Child & Meridon followed the story through. I loved the twistsin the tales that you dont expect, & the characters are brought to lifein your mind. Excellent, well worth reading.
