Wicked Mistress Yale
The Parting Glass
In his ninth novel, the third of a trilogy, David Ebsworth continues the story of Catherine Yale, wife of nabob, philanthropist – and slave trader – Elihu Yale. A political thriller and family saga, very much in the tradition of Winston Graham’s Poldark but the setting for this chapter of the Yale story is early 18th Century London, Wales and northern England during the turmoil of Queen Anne’s reign and, later, the 1715 Jacobite Rebellion.
“The diaries of our protagonist, Catherine, take us at breathless speed through the early years of the eighteenth century, narrated with a delightfully sardonic eye for character and detail. She is living at the sharp end of history and she is not a woman to mess with. The book is brilliantly researched, packed with fascinating detail, a wonderful evocation of the period. I enjoyed it enormously.” Barbara Erskine, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Ghost Tree and Lady of Hay
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