PositiveHistorical Novel SocietyBased on a real-life scandal in 1797, this novel is concerned with Ann-Jemima Provis and her father ... The plot is slow-moving, very much of its time and place, and the research is impeccable. The reader becomes totally immersed in the society and culture of the time: clothes, speech, idioms, descriptions of place all serve to help the reader imagine the scenes.
