On a long-delayed errand to remote Wycliffe Manor, ex-Lieutenant Jack de Sackville stumbles across the murdered body of London dandy, Basil Culpepper, in the hedgerow, a long way from his usual haunts.
In einer Zeit tiefgreifender Umwälzungen und politischer Intrigen steht eine Frau im Zentrum der Macht, deren Einfluss das Schicksal einer Dynastie entscheidend prägt.
A sweeping historical saga, The Oyster Girl by Margaret Pemberton follows the lives of three families in a small oyster fishing town on the south-east coast of England - whose lives are changed forever by the First World War.