A Wild Pursuit

A Wild PursuitIt is whispered behind the fans of London's dowagers and in the corners of the fashionable ballrooms that scandal follows wilfully wild Lady Beatrix Lennox wherever she goes. Three years earlier, the debutante created a sensation by being found in a distinctly compromising position. Now the ton has branded her as unmarriageable, her family has called her a vixen, and Beatrix sees no reason not to go after what and who she wishes. And she wants Stephen

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And sometimes making ends meet requires her to investigate a little royal wrongdoing

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" These five very different teens form an unlikely alliance to secretly right local wrongs

Writing in The New York Review of Books

and through his eyes Faulks reveals not only the unspeakable carnage but the unexpected love and loyalty that took place in the fields of France a mere two generations ago

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Kyle's masterful account of his extraordinary battlefield experiences ranks as one of the great war memoirs of all time