Marianne
Alice McVeigh
Type: ARC
Genre: Historical fiction
Word count: 84,000
When Marianne – still beautiful, still impulsive and not yet twenty-one – returns to London, she is rich, with a house in Mayfair and an estate in Dorsetshire. She is also besieged with admirers, including the dangerously attractive Willoughby and the charming and irreverent Crawford. As Marianne attempts to navigate the social whirl of Regency London, she finds her resolution tested and her feelings torn – between the pull of the past and the allure of the present.
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When Marianne – still beautiful, still impulsive and not yet twenty-one – returns to London, she is rich, with a house in Mayfair and an estate in Dorsetshire. Despite her resolve to remain single, she finds herself besieged with admirers, including the dangerously attractive Willoughby and the charming and irreverent Crawford.
Then Marianne’s younger sister Margaret arrives. Margaret’s passion for romance leads to unexpected complications. As Marianne attempts to navigate the social whirl of Regency London, she finds her resolution tested and her feelings torn – between the pull of the past and the allure of the present.
Alice McVeigh has been published by Orion/Hachette in contemporary fiction and self-published in multi-award-winning Austenesque fiction. McVeigh’s celebrated series will shortly be five standalone books strong. The most recent two (Darcy and Pride and Perjury) were both honoured at the 2024 and 2025 London Book Fairs, in the UK Selfie awards in adult fiction. Harriet was a runner-up for Forward Indies’ 2022 “Book of the Year”, and Susan was a Booklife 2021 quarterfinalist. A professional London cellist, Alice is married and lives in Kent.
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