Mount Vernon Love Story by Mary Higgins Clark

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Bibliographic Details

• Author: Mary Higgins Clark
• Title: Mount Vernon Love Story: A Novel of George and Martha Washington
• Publisher: ‎ Simon & Schuster
• Publication Date: June 18, 2002
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover ‏ w/Deckle Edge – 224 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0743229878
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0743229876
• Item Weight: ‎ .75 lbs.
• Dimensions: ‎ 6 x 0.75 x 8.75 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Excellent
• Dust Jacket Condition: Excellent

Synopsis:

In Mount Vernon Love Story, bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark reveals the flesh-and-blood man who became the "father of our country" in a story that is charming, insightful, and immensely entertaining.

Always a lover of history, Mary Higgins Clark wrote this extensively researched biographical novel and titled it Aspire to the Heavens, after the motto of George Washington's mother. Published in 1969, the book was more recently discovered by a Washington family descendant and reissued as Mount Vernon Love Story.

Dispelling the widespread belief that although George Washington married Martha Dandridge Custis, he reserved his true love for Sally Carey Fairfax, his best friend's wife.

Mary Higgins Clark describes the Washington marriage as one full of tenderness and passion, as a bond between two people who shared their lives—even the bitter hardship of a winter in Valley Forge—in every way. In this author's skilled hands, the history, the love, and the man come fully and dramatically alive.

About the Author:

The #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark has written thirty-eight suspense novels, four collections of short stories, a his­torical novel, a memoir, and two children’s books. With bestselling author Alafair Burke she wrote the Under Suspicion series. With her daughter Carol Higgins Clark, she has coauthored five more suspense novels.

Clark’s books have sold more than 100 million copies in the United States alone. Her books are beloved around the world and made her an international bestseller many times over.