Castle Orchard
By: Libby Dineley
Publisher: Corsair
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781780335902
Subjects: Fiction; History
Description: When Johnny Arthur, perpetual debtor and fashionable London dandy, loses his family estate of Castle Orchard in a chess game to the mysterious Captain Allington, wounded veteran of Waterloo, the ripples spread far and wide. Then suddenly Johnny dies whilst fleeing his debtors, and his wife Caroline and their young son are left with nothing.