She belongs to him: law and custom confirm it, and she must live as he wants-his passion for Lizzie darkening until she finds herself dangerously alone. Tormented and striving Diner believes that Lizzie's independent, questioning spirit must be coerced and subdued. Soon his plans for a magnificent terrace built above the two-hundred-foot drop of the Gorge come under threat. But she has recently married John Diner Tredevant, a property developer who is heavily invested in Bristol's housing boom, and he has everything to lose from social upheaval and the prospect of war. Lizzie Fawkes has grown up in Radical circles where each step of the French Revolution is followed with eager idealism. It is 1792 and Europe is seized by political turmoil and violence. About the Book From the bestselling author of The Siege and Exposure and the first ever winner of the Orange Prize comes a new novel set in Bristol at the height of the Romantic Era that follows a freethinking young woman in her new marriage to a ruthlessly ambitious property developer
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