Life hasn’t always been good, but it has rarely been boring. In her spare time she is still a voracious reader, and enjoys keeping fit, exploring the beautiful countryside around her home, and travelling the world.
She has since had a variety of jobs, including telesales, Post Office clerk, primary school teacher, and painter and gilder. Then she gave up trying to conform, resigned her well-paid but boring job and resolved to spend the rest of her life living as she wanted to, not as others would like her to. After leaving university with a degree in English Language and Literature, she spent her twenties trying to be a sensible and responsible person, even going so far as to work for the Civil Service for six years. Julia has been a voracious reader since childhood, using books to escape the miseries of a turbulent adolescence. Join the rebellion of one woman and her fight for freedom in… Will she opt for the safe but dreary life her husband wishes her to lead, or will she fight for a life of passion, adventure and excitement, knowing that in doing so, she risks not only her own life, but the lives of those she loves? The ink on the marriage contract is hardly dry, however, when Beth makes a shocking discovery, one that turns her world upside down and throws her whole future into doubt once more.Īlmost immediately she must make a decision. It may be uneventful, but she will be free of her brother. She resigns herself to a future of formal parties and dismal social gatherings, whilst accompanying a husband who is both tiresome and physically repellent to her, but consoles herself with the thought that if she is not to know love, then at least she will have a secure and comfortable life.
With no other options available to her, Beth marries the effete and tedious social butterfly Sir Anthony Peters. The second in the fascinating series about the lives of the beautiful Beth Cunningham, her family and friends.īritain moves ever closer to the 1745 rebellion and the impending attempt to restore the Stuarts to the British throne.
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