
The Scandal of the Season: A Novel

But he looked again at the pages on his desk. Still no closer to a finished poem. He needed a new subject, something that would give his talents their proper range. In his heart he knew that he would never find it in Binfield. Somehow, anyhow, he must get to London.
Sophie Gee • The Scandal of the Season: A Novel
He got writer’s block so bad that he HAS to go to London. LOL
the doctor had told him the news. Though he had survived the illness, it would cripple his growth. His back would become hunched, until eventually he would be unable to move. The physician could not say when it would occur—perhaps
Sophie Gee • The Scandal of the Season: A Novel
Jervas was a Protestant,
Sophie Gee • The Scandal of the Season: A Novel
Ashamed, he bent his head, trying to feel the piety that he knew was proper.
Sophie Gee • The Scandal of the Season: A Novel
Like Alexander and his family, the Blounts were Roman Catholics.
Sophie Gee • The Scandal of the Season: A Novel
Alexander returned to find his house in darkness, save for a candle burning in the kitchen, where a little meal of bread and cheese had been left out. He warmed himself by sitting close to the oven.
Sophie Gee • The Scandal of the Season: A Novel
Arabella Fermor was looking at herself in the glass, considering on which side of her cheek the morning’s beauty patch should be placed. She stepped back so that Betty, her maid, could tighten the robings on her stays.
Sophie Gee • The Scandal of the Season: A Novel
He wrote for an hour, ignoring the headache and sore throat that had begun to nag.
Sophie Gee • The Scandal of the Season: A Novel
Arabella, known to her friends as Bell, was blessed with an almost perfect face and figure—and