Published in 1862, Lady Audley’s Secret is one of the defining works of Victorian sensation fiction. Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s beautiful, golden-haired Lady Audley conceals a past so dangerous that her nephew Robert Audley begins to suspect her of the worst crimes imaginable. The novel moves from the drawing rooms of Essex to the asylums of Belgium, building suspense with every chapter.
Braddon wrote more than eighty novels, but this debut remains her masterpiece — a subversive thriller that sold hundreds of thousands of copies and shocked respectable Victorian society. Download the free EPUB and discover why it still grips readers more than 160 years later.