Novel set in Overijssel 1961
GIVEAWAY: 3 copies of The Wayward Duke – VICTORIAN LONDON
6th October 2024
We are delighted to offer 3 copies of The Wayward Duke by Katrina Kendrick – transporting the reader to Victorian London
UK ONLY
‘Perfectly balancing romance and intrigue, this is a true page-turner’ Publishers Weekly
HE IS THE ICE-COLD DUKE
Julian, the Duke of Hastings, is known for being aloof and utterly in control. For nine years, he’s kept his distance from the only woman who ever cracked his icy exterior, burying himself in work as a top-secret government code-breaker. But when his latest assignment ensnares him in a lethal aristocratic plot, Julian has no choice but to enlist the help of his estranged wife.
SHE IS THE PRIM DUCHESS
To all of society, Caroline Hastings is the perfect duchess. For years she’s masked her pain over her husband’s abandonment behind a poised facade. But when Julian unexpectedly returns and sweeps them into a dangerous, covert mission, Caroline discovers her frozen duke isn’t quite so indifferent in the bedroom after all.
Now, locked in a dangerous chase through London’s glittering ballrooms and dark back alleys, Julian and Caroline must catch a killer-before he catches them first.
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THREE winners chosen at random. UK ENTRY ONLY
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WINNERS
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Alyson C
Gardenia
Jack the Ripper
Fog and dirt!
The smog must have been awful
Dark alleyways
Ladies of the night
Gas lit lamps to light the darkened streets
The smell of it… smog, sewage, the Thames!
Charles Dickens
The wealthiest of society living ‘cheek to jowl’ with those who are the very poorest.
Jack the Ripper
Smog dirty and harsh
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens!
Dingy, dangerous back-alleys where the paupers try to eke out a living in the sweat shop factories and no-one is safe from thieves and murderers.
Then the glittering homes of the rich aristocrats, where the stench of poverty is concealed by pomades and perfumes.
Jack The Ripper is my first thought secondly how bad it would of smelt but mostly how exquisite the formal dress was.
Victorian London brings to mind pea souper fogs over the River Thames, the haunting hoots of the barges, then the mysterious sounds of objects being dropped into the water.
Charles Dickens, from his days of childhood poverty, working in a blacking factory, to his success as a writer. Many of his books refer to the poverty he experienced as a child and my mental image of London in those times comes from his accounts of it
When I think of Victorian London, I don’t think of anything nice! I think of the sooty air, the dung-filled streets and the sewerage in the Thames.
Drawing rooms, carriages and the introduction of Christmas trees.
When I think of Victorian London, it brings to mind Charles Dickens: a place of extreme wealth and extreme poverty, as depicted in Oliver Twist.
Jack the Ripper!