'This is historical fiction with a human face' Peter Ackroyd, The Times 'A vivid and erudite tour de force' Penelope Lively, Booker Prize-winning author of Moon Tiger 'A skilled, ornate and convincing examination of a nineteenth-century scandal in Bragg's own Cumbria' Thomas Keneally, Booker Prize-winning author of Schindler's Ark Set in the Lake District in the early nineteenth century, this is a riveting story of love and deception, and a scandal that shook the entire nation.