In His Lordship's Dovecote

Passionately independent and intellectually stifled, a sensual encounter with a seductive scientific researcher draws Lady Emily Henshawe into a forbidden romance, forbidden above all by herself, and into the toils of a scandalous liaison that threatens to turn her world upside down. It's 1868. Darwin's 'Origin of Species', with its message of survival of the fittest and 'nature red in tooth and c...