'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.