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The story of an imposter and bigamist, who travels to the North where he marries 'the maid of Buttermere', a young woman whose natural beauty inspired the dreams and confirmed the theories of a=early 19th century writers.Read More

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  • Foyles

    Melvyn Bragg's highly acclaimed, bestselling historical novel, the story behind one of the 19th century's greatest scandals.'This is the story of an impostor and bigamist, a self-styled Colonel Hope, who travels to the North, where eventually he marries "The Maid of Buttermere", a young woman whose natural beauty inspired the dreams and confirmed the theories of various early nineteenth-century writers . . . It is a fine story . . . This is historical fiction with a human face'Peter Ackroyd, The Times'A skilled, ornate and convincing examination of a nineteenth-century scandal in Bragg's own Cumbria'Thomas Keneally'A triumph . . . I am overwhelmingly impressed'Beryl Bainbridge'Bragg achieves the most difficult of feats, the telling of the changing perceptions and ideals of a radical age . . . He is also as powerful as ever in his description of nature'Sunday Times

  • Blackwell

    Melvyn Bragg's highly-acclaimed bestselling historical novel, the story behind one of the 19th century's greatest scandals. Melvyn Bragg's highly-acclaimed bestselling historical novel, the story behind one of the 19th century's greatest scandals.

  • 0340423730
  • 9780340423738
  • Lord Melvyn Bragg
  • 1 January 1993
  • Sceptre
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 480
  • 2
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