Book description
It's 1928 and Bright Young Things are taking London by storm, but debutante Ophelia's life is all mapped out: marriage to a cod-faced aristocrat and a life of dull respectability.
Refusing to play along, Ophelia is banished to her ancestral home in the Highlands of Scotland.
There, she'll be so…
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1 author picked Highland Pursuits as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I have never found a modern-day author who encapsulates the roaring 1920s in such a resplendent as Emmanuelle de Maupassant: the humour, the wit, the descriptions of the Highlands which Emmanuelle knows so well, and of course, the mystery of eccentric relatives who are not what they seem.
I love this trilogy, with more than one unusual marriage...
From Emily's list on unexpected love stories in historical romance.
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