'This is historical fiction with a human face'
Peter Ackroyd, The Times
'A vivid and erudite tour de force'
Penelope Lively, Booker Prize-winning author of Moon Tiger
'A skilled, ornate and convincing examination of a nineteenth-century scandal in Bragg's own Cumbria'
Thomas Keneally, Booker Prize-winning author of Schindler's Ark
Set in the Lake District in the early nineteenth century, this is a riveting story of love and deception, and a scandal that shook the entire nation.
- ISBN10 0340423730
- ISBN13 9780340423738
- Publish Date 1 January 1993 (first published 4 May 1987)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
- Imprint Sceptre
- Edition 2nd edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 464
- Language English