Book description
Repressed Lady Judith, unhappily married to Parliamentarian supporter
Lord Steven Ashley, is surprised when he brings an enemy prisoner to
their manor house. The handsome Cavalier is addressed as Captain, but is
in fact a woman, Countess Antonia Durward, and she heads a troop of
soldiers, male and female. Eighteen year old Judith hates her
middle-aged husband, who thinks it his right to chastise her for the
smallest misdemeanour. She and the Countess escape and Judith joins
Durward s she-soldiers, their lives fraught with danger as the war
progresses and the Royalists face defeat. They head for France where she
helps Isobel Thorley, a wickedly attractive bisexual courtesan, open a
high-class brothel. At last Judith is enjoying a freedom never before
experienced, and swears never to return to her husband and the Puritan
way of life... Repressed Lady Judith, unhappily married to
Parliamentarian supporter Lord Steven Ashley, is surprised when he
brings an enemy prisoner to their manor house. The handsome Cavalier is
addressed as Captain, but is in fact a woman, Countess Antonia Durward,
and she heads a troop of soldiers, male and female. Eighteen year old
Judith hates her middle-aged husband, who thinks it his right to
chastise her for the smallest misdemeanour. She and the Countess escape
and Judith joins Durward s she-soldiers, their lives fraught with danger
as the war progresses and the Royalists face defeat. They head for
France where she helps Isobel Thorley, a wickedly attractive bisexual
courtesan, open a high-class brothel. At last Judith is enjoying a
freedom never before experienced, and swears never to return to her
husband and the Puritan way of life...
