John Radcliffe's life is changed drastically by his encounter with the Royalist Catholic Heskeths on their landed estate. Ensuing events are caused partly by the fluctuating fortunes of both sides in the Civil War but also by the young Roundhead's misguided involvement with a family alien to his class, religion and politics. The threads linking together John, the Hesketh sisters, their Puritan maid, their Cavalier brother William and the rakish Kit Verney twist and turn as love, deceit, sacrifice and death tie them all in a knot from which there is no escape but by a re-assessment of motives, prejudices and beliefs.
- ISBN10 1908596643
- ISBN13 9781908596642
- Publish Date 14 October 2011
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 August 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 426
- Language English