Book description
Edwardian England is a country at the peak of its power; a kingdom of
peace, prosperity and progress. As Jessie and Violet enjoy their
coming-out in the glittering Season of 1908, their thoughts are of
pleasure, dancing and falling in love. For the Morlands things seem set
fair: new business ventures expand their influence and wealth; there are
weddings, babies in the nursery, careers for the boys now reaching
manhood. It is an exciting age, with new technologies - motor cars,
telephones, radio, aeroplanes - extending man's control over the natural
world. But under the appearance of permanence, a different reality is
stirring. Socialism, the suffrage movement, the constitutional crisis,
all call forth ever more dissent and anger. Increasingly violent
protests and strikes disturb the peace; war with Germany looms ever
closer. With the King's death, it begins to seem that the safe Edwardian
world was only a dream, from which the wakening will be hard indeed.
Cynthia Harrod-Eagles is the author of the contemporary Bill Slider
Mystery series as well as the Morland Dynasty novels. Her passions are
music, wine, horses, architecture and the English countryside.
