The Maid of Buttermere by Melvyn Bragg

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 ArkSet 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.
Binding: Paperback / softback