Maid of Buttermere

Melvyn Bragg\'s highly acclaimed, bestselling historical novel, the story behind one of the 19th century\'s greatest scandals.\'This is the story of an impostor and bigamist, a self-styled Colonel Hope, who travels to the North, where eventually he marries \"The Maid of Buttermere\", a young woman whose natural beauty inspired the dreams and confirmed the theories of various early nineteenth-century writers . . . It is a fine story . . . This is historical fiction with a human face\'Peter Ackroyd, The Times\'A skilled, ornate and convincing examination of a nineteenth-century scandal in Bragg\'s own Cumbria\'Thomas Keneally\'A triumph . . . I am overwhelmingly impressed\'Beryl Bainbridge\'Bragg achieves the most difficult of feats, the telling of the changing perceptions and ideals of a radical age . . . He is also as powerful as ever in his description of nature\'Sunday Times Σελίδες: 464, Έτος Έκδοσης: 2022, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm