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Cat O’nine Tails

by Julia Golding Book 4 in the Cat Royal series.

First published 2007

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4.3(1,713)

A visit to fashionable Bath begins with a ball and ends with Cat separated from her friends and drawn into a plot against Lord Francis. Disguise and misadventure carry her aboard a Royal Navy vessel, where the discipline of shipboard life leaves little room for the independence she enjoyed at Drury Lane.

The voyage takes Cat across the Atlantic and into the unsettled world of the new United States. To prevent the conspiracy from succeeding, she must survive naval punishment, unfamiliar territory and adversaries who assume that a young theatre girl cannot understand their plans.

Historical Periods

Bath and Georgian Society1720–1830 CE Georgian Empire and Atlantic World1714–1837 CE

Genres

Children’s & Young Adult Fiction Coming-of-Age Fiction Exploration & Survival Fiction Historical Thriller Maritime Fiction

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan1751–1816

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