The secret children
By: Alison McQueen
Publisher: Magna
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Long Preston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 494
ISBN-13: 9780750536479
Subjects: Fiction; History
Description: 1788. Asa Ardleigh, the impressionable daughter of a country squire, has travelled to Paris with her newly wedded sister, Philippa, it is the heady days before the Revolution. In Paris Asa first falls in love with dashing revolutionary Didier Paulin. But as the storm clouds gather over France, Asa must return home. Meanwhile in England, no one knows of Asa's liaison. A fortuitous marriage to Harry Shackleford beckons for Asa, as well as the solution to the family woes. But then disturbing news reaches Asa from a France now seething with violence, and Asa must decide whether to follow her head or her heart ...