1795: the shadow of Bonaparte has fallen across Europe and touches each member of the far-flung Morland family.
As the century draws to a close, Jemima Morland wearily ackowledges that her life is also nearing its end, but she has scant peace as her unpredictable children behave ever more incomprehensibly: James's marriage to Mary Ann is closer to falling apart; Lucy's marriage de convenance is in the balance - her affair with Lieutenant Watson is an open scandal.
Mary bears a daughter on board her husband's ship during the battle of the Nile; and William supports a mistress whose marriage cannot be dissolved.
Jemima's death appears to unite the family but, as ever with the Morlands, the future holds more peril than hope.
- ISBN10 0748132988
- ISBN13 9780748132980
- Publish Date 25 August 2011 (first published 21 January 1988)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint Sphere
- Edition Digital original
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 512
- Language English