NEW AUSTRALIAN NOVEL EXPLORES DARK SIDE OF HISTORICAL ROMANCE GENRE
Award-winning author, Karen Turner's debut novel, Torn, is a historical romance set in the Regency era that explores the darkly human nature of relationships, while remaining true to the popular genre.
Unlike many 'Jane Austen' style stories that often feature chaste lovers and scandals strictly kept 'behind closed doors', Karen set out to look at the damaging effects of love and betrayal in graphic detail, all the while remaining faithful to the historical era.
Set against a backdrop of love and treachery during the turbulent years of the Napoleonic Wars, this sweeping saga tells the story of a young girl, Alex Broughton, and her journey to womanhood. As events progress, Alex experiences the devastating effects of war, unrequited love, and suffers a cruel betrayal from an unlikely source.
Karen Turner is an Australian author, who recently shifted her vocation from writing technical documentation and financial news articles to fictional prose. Her first book of short stories, All That and Everything, was published in 2009, with many of the stories winning awards, including the Society of Women Writers Vic Biennial Literary Award, and the Free XpressSion Literary Competition.
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