The Scandalous Lady W : An Eighteenth-Century Tale of Sex, Scandal and Divorce

BY THE AUTHOR OF THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE-WINNER, THE FIVE, THE WOMEN KILLED BY JACK THE RIPPER'Under her pen, history comes alive' Professor Dame Sue Black'A fabulous 18th-century tale. Hallie Rubenhold tells it beautifully' Telegraph'As a historian and storyteller, Rubenhold is in a league of her own' Literary Review_____________It was the divorce that scandalised Georgian England... She was a spirited young heiress. He was a handsome baronet with a promising career in government. Their marriage had the makings of a fairy tale but ended as one of the most salacious and highly publicised divorces in history. For over two hundred years the story of Lady Worsley, her vengeful husband, and her lover, George Maurice Bisset, lay forgotten. Now Hallie Rubenhold, in her impeccably researched book, throws open a window to a rarely seen view of Georgian England, one coloured by passion, adventure and the defiance of social convention. The Worsley's story, their struggles and outrageous lifestyle, promises to shock even the modern reader. The book behind the major BBC drama starring Natalie Dormer (Game of Thrones, The Hunger Games, Mockingjay)