Absolutely LOVED this book! This is the second book I have read by this author and both were simply fantastic!

Sometimes in this day and age we have a tendency to think that we have become so depraved as compared to "the good old days", but Mary Elizabeth Braddon shows us that this is not the case. People have always been the way they are now, there are just more of us on the planet now so that means that are just more examples now than there were then.

Braddon also has, as woman of the 19th century herself, a tremendous gift for showing how strong independent women of that time managed their lives in a time when strength and independence were not necessarily looked upon as positive traits in a woman.

I wish Ms. Braddon had written more books, for I would read them all!!