The Heir to Marshingdean

A boy is lost and then found again. As the long Napoleonic conflict seems to be coming to an end, Jack Preston, who works in a newspaper office in Brighton, is whisked away from his old life by a mysterious stranger. He begins to get used to his new life at the country estate called Marshingdean, and meanwhile his old employer's daughter Thea goes through a transformation in her own fortunes. Will their paths ever cross again? Jack finds that the acceptance of his new life does not prevent him from revisiting the old one, particularly when his brother Sebastian persists in crossing the Channel again and again, apparently in search of an imaginary past in France.
This is the first in a series of novels that tell the stories of Jack and his family during a time when the repercussions of war and unrest bring unexpected problems into their lives.


Genre: Historical