Aviary Gate (Audiobook)

from Kasthu

Set in the Sultan's harem in Constantinople in 1599, The Aviary Gate is the story of Celia Lamprey, and Englishwoman sold into slavery after a shipwreck. For two years, her fiancée, Paul Pindar (a secretary to the ambassador) has believed Celia to be dead-until a chance encounter gives him proof ...

from Kasthu

Set in the Sultan's harem in Constantinople in 1599, The Aviary Gate is the story of Celia Lamprey, and Englishwoman sold into slavery after a shipwreck. For two years, her fiancée, Paul Pindar (a secretary to the ambassador) has believed Celia to be dead-until a chance encounter gives him proof ...

from lyncos

The Aviary Gate by Katie Hickman expertly weaves between the present day and sixteenth -century Constantinople. In Oxford, Elizabeth Stavely, a PhD student, is researching material for her thesis on captivity narratives. She finds a fragile, ancient parchment the amber color of old tea. The parch...

from elbakerone

Elizabeth Staveley is a graduate student with a somewhat fractured love life. Her current research project uncovers a story from Constantinople in 1599 where English merchant Paul Pindar discovers that his betrothed, Celia Lamprey, whom he thought dead in a shipwreck, is living in the enclosed Ha...

from dianaleez

Katie Hickman's 'The Aviary Gate' is the bittersweet story of two sets of lovers: Celia and Paul, devoted lovers who are separated in 1599 when she is captured by Turks and sold into slavery, and modern day doctoral student Elizabeth and her faithless professor lover Marius. The two stories are s...