''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.