Crossing the Tamar

'Like Jane Austen, only faster' - ISLINGTON GAZETTE '...everything you want in romance. It galloped me along to the very last page' - SOPHIE WESTON Cornwall 1808: in Selwood Priory the dying Sir Walter is watching a cockfight on his bedroom floor. His daughter, Dorothea, is planning the next Selwood smuggling venture, which the sinister Bram Gunthorpe is manoeuvring to take over when old Sir Walter dies. Then there are Sir Walter's numerous bastards, two of whom live at the Priory with their mother, Sir Walter's mistress - to the horror of the local gentry. Into this situation comes the new heir, the Reverend Veryan Selwood, a reclusive Oxford don with very rigid notions of propriety...


Genre: Historical