Mistress of My Fate - The Confessions of Henrietta Lightfoot book 1

Informationen zum Autor Hallie Rubenhold is the #1 Sunday Times bestselling and Baillie Gifford prize-winning author of The Five, the Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper . A renowned social historian whose expertise lies in revealing stories of previously unknown women and episodes in history, she is the author of The Covent Garden Ladies which was the inspiration behind BBC TV's 'Harlots'. Her biographical work, Lady Worsley's Whim, was dramatized by the BBC as 'The Scandalous Lady W'. Her most recent work of non-fiction, Story of a Murder , the wives, the mistress and Dr Crippen , has been optioned for TV. She has also written two acclaimed novels Mistress of My Fate and The French Lesson which give voice to the women written out by eighteenth-century literature . She lives in London with her husband. Meet her @HallieRubenhold Klappentext A dark, disturbing and untold story of the shadow espionage battle during the First World War. Zusammenfassung Georgian England, 1789. Under a cloud of scandal, Henrietta Lightfoot flees her home at Melmouth Park. She has little money and no worthwhile talents, for what use is a neat stitch and a pretty voice outside the drawing room? Without family support, her only hope of survival lies with the dashing but elusive Lord Allenham...

Product details

• Authors: Hallie Rubenhold
• Publisher: Corgi
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.05.2012
• EAN: 9780552162517
• ISBN: 978-0-552-16251-7
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 198 mm x 32 mm
• Series: The Confessions of Henrietta Lightfoot; Henrietta Lightfoot; Henrietta Lightfoot; The Confessions of Henrietta Lightfoot
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Historical novels and narratives; London, Greater London, FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Women, FICTION / Humorous / General, FICTION / Biographical, FICTION / Friendship, FICTION / Science Fiction / General, FICTION / Alternative History, FICTION / Romance / Action & Adventure, FICTION / Romance / Historical / Regency, FICTION / Humorous / Black Humor, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, FICTION / Feminist, C 1700 To C 1800