In mid-eighteenth-century London, Triplet, scene painter and author of unperformable tragedies, starves in a bare room while Peg Woffington reigns at Drury Lane. Her wit and generosity draw her into his life and into the affairs of a young country gentleman, Ernest Vane, whose wife arrives in town unannounced.
Reade’s first novel, drawn from the play he wrote with Tom Taylor, and a lively picture of the Georgian theatre. Download the free EPUB.