On market day in the county town of Aldersbury, gentry and farmers throng Bride Hill outside Ovington’s Bank. The rising banker’s family and the old squire’s household are bound together by love and divided by pride and money, as the speculation of the 1820s heads toward the great banking panic.
A late Weyman novel, a richly detailed picture of provincial England before the Reform Act. Download the free EPUB.
← Browse more Historical Novels: The Nineteenth Century & After