The novel opens with a nervous young gentleman reading Dickens aloud to an unresponsive village audience, and moves among English characters at home and abroad, where Burgoyne and the woman he loves must learn whether their attachment can survive separation, gossip and the attentions of others. Broughton’s dialogue is quick, her observation sharp, and her title fair warning.
A witty, bittersweet late-Victorian novel from a writer once called the queen of the circulating libraries. Download the free EPUB.