Blindspot: By a Gentleman in Exile & a Lady in Disguise: A Novel

Blindspot: By a Gentleman in Exile & a Lady in Disguise: A Novel

A novel of passion and politics in the age of the American Revolution Set in boisterous Boston on the eve of the American Revolution, Blindspot is at once fiction and history, mystery and love story, tragedy and farce. Peopled not only with the celebrated Sons of Liberty but also with revolutionary Boston's unsung inhabitants, it tells the story of Scottish painter Stewart Jameson and his spirited apprentice, Fanny Easton, a fallen woman who has disguised herself as a boy, Francis Weston. When Boston's revolutionary leader, Samuel Bradstreet, dies suddenly on the day Jameson was to paint his portrait, Bradstreet's slaves are accused of murder. Jameson, Weston, and the brilliant doctor Ignatius Alexander set out to determine the truth. What they discover turns topsy-turvy everything you thought you knew about the Founding Fathers. "A lusty romance, a murder mystery, and a bit of Americana, all rolled into one big, fat historical romp. Lepore and Kamensky have recreated a fascinating world and brought history hotly alive." -- "San Francisco Chronicle" "A tribute to--and a send-up of--eighteenth-century melodramas." -- "Bookmarks" "If you ever thought of the eighteenth century as stuffy, you were wrong. Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore have brought the era to life." -- "BookPage" "John Lee and Cassandra Campbell are delightful...Lee has Jamie's raffish attitude and moral dilemma down pat, and Campbell nicely captures Fanny's predicament as she struggles to remember that she's a boy...[With] clever conversations and situations involving politics...Lee and Campbell keep things light and entertaining." -- "AudioFile" Jane Kamensky is the author of A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley , winner of the New York Historical Society's American History Book Prize and the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History. Candida Royalle was a finalist for the 2024 National Book Critic's Circle Award for Biography. The Exchange Artist: A Tale of High-Flying Speculation and America's First Banking Collapse was a finalist for the 2009 George Washington Book Prize. She is professor emerita of history at Harvard University. She is the president of Monticello/the Thomas Jefferson Foundation and has previously served as director of the Schlesinger Library at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. Jill Lepore is an acclaimed New York Times bestselling author whose many books include New York Burning , a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; The Name of War , winner of the Bancroft Prize; The Mansion of Happiness , shortlisted for the 2013 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction; and Book of Ages , a finalist for the National Book Award. These Truths was named a best book of the year by the New York Times and Washington Post . She is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at the New Yorker . John Lee is the winner of numerous Earphones Awards and the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration. He has twice won acclaim as AudioFile 's Best Voice in Fiction & Classics. He also narrates video games, does voice-over work, and writes plays. Original bio sent from Cassandra: Cassandra Campbell began doing voice overs as the voice for Calvin Klein's Italian commercials. This was followed by commercial and documentary recording in both English and Italian. She has recorded many audiobooks and has received several AudioFile Earphones Awards as well as an Audie(R) Award nomination. As an actress and director, she has worked at the Public, the Mint, the Berkshire Theatre Festival, Stagewest, Theatreworks, the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival, Millmountain Theatre, the National Shakespeare Company, and the New York Fringe Festival.