Troy Chimneys by Margaret Kennedy (9780099595519)

Description - Troy Chimneys by Margaret Kennedy

A remarkable historical novel, set in Austen-era England, exploring issues of identity, love and class, from the author of The Constant Nymph

A Victorian gentleman is forced by illness to entertain himself with the family archive, and he uncovers the Regency-era correspondence and diaries of one Miles Lufton, MP - apparently a black sheep of the family, connected with a scandal long buried. But through the pieced-together artefacts from the past, a fuller picture emerges of a man torn between two personalities - Miles, serious, studious and penniless, and 'Pronto', flirt, political mover and eternal 'extra man'. Miles longs to dispose of his disreputable alter ego, but that way lies calamity...

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