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Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780751506488

Price: £10.99

ON SALE: 3rd May 2001

Genre: Fiction & Related Items / Historical Fiction

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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.

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