My Last Duchess
Daisy Goodwin
‘Sex and the City’ meets Henry James . . . without the boring bits!
It’s the last days of the nineteenth century and fabulously rich American heiresses are picking off impoverished English aristocrats to make socially advantageous unions.
Cora Cash, the wealthiest debutante in America, comes to England with her sights set on catching herself a title.
Out riding with the Middleton Hunt, Cora falls from her horse and is rescued by a mysterious man who turns out to be the Duke of Wareham. A week later they are engaged and suddenly Cora finds herself Duchess of Wareham, mistress of Lulworth Castle, and married to the most eligible bachelor in England.
But Cora quickly discovers that nothing in this strange new world is quite as it seems. Her handsome new husband is withdrawn and secretive; the English social scene is stuffed with pitfalls and traps; and there are increasingly dangerous forces at work.
Based on the marriage between heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt and the Duke of Marlborough,glorious and carefully researched detail about the Gilded Age.
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