The Other Life of Mary English: How two remarkable women changed the course of South American history

TWO DIFFERENT WOMEN. ONE SHARED DESTINY.

Mary English, businesswoman and adventurer from Faversham in Kent, England, travels to South America to escape a scandal from her past. She sets up an import depot in Colombia and ends up running a cacao plantation there, at a time when women were not legally allowed to own businesses in the country.

Manuela Sáenz, tempestuous lover of Venezuelan revolutionary Simón Bolívar, serves as a colonel in his army. She joins him in battle to fight the Spanish and twice saves his life from assassination attempts.

This is the story of two remarkable real-life women, both fighting oppression, hardship and danger in 1820s Colombia, who come together to change the course of a nation’s history.