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Isabella de Savigny, a young woman who escapes the terror of Revolutionary France after her father’s guillotining, arrives in England hoping for sanctuary at the Nethergate estate of her cousin. Instead, she is reduced to the role of a servant and faces the dismissive cruelty of Maria Pratt, the house’s lady’s maid. When Isabella is seduced and abandoned by Forest Shackleton, the house’s son, she is compelled to marry Pratt’s brother, a decision that begins a new struggle for her future. The birth of her daughter brings a glimmer of hope and compels Isabella to resist a hostile society and carve a path toward independence.
First publish date: 2011
Genre: Historical Fiction/19th Century Historical Fiction
Authors: Norah Lofts
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