Book description
1820: the landscape of England is undergoing sweeping change as the
country pioneers the steam-driven machine age. The Morlands, too, face
change: Cousin Africa returns from St Helena to startle society with her
unconventional ideas; Lucy brings her sons home from their Grand Tour,
brimming with ideas for their future. In Manchester, Sophie and Jasper
meet fierce oppostion to their plans for re-housing the factory hands;
while in London, Rosamund enters a bizarre agreement with her husband
Marcus, with bitter consequences. And at Morland Place, James and
Heloise watch their two sons approaching manhood. Benedict delights
equally in love and locomotives, while Nicholas, the heir develops a
taste for more unusual pleasures - and an impatience to claim his
inheritance. Cynthia Harrod Eagles won the Young Writers Award with
THE WAITING GAME. She has written over sixty books, including thirty
three volumes of the Morland Dynasty and the acclaimed mystery series
featuring Inspector Bill Slider.
