London 1794. Revolution creeps across the channel, the coffee-houses brew gossip and the great City seethes with emigres, upstarts and opportunists. Among them, restless young women, two of whom want more than a husband...
Katharine Grant was born into a family described by Lord Burghley, Treasurer to Elizabeth 1st, as of 'more than usual perversity' Her five times great uncle, Francis Towneley, was the last person in the UK to be hung drawn and quartered- for sedition. Katharine grew up on the edge of the Lancashire moors with five sisters and one brother and, sometimes using family stories, has written nine novels for children and young adults. She has written regularly for most newspapers in Scotland and is currently the Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at the University of Glasgow. Sedition is her first novel for adults. She lives in Glasgow.
A subversive and thrilling gothic tale, it will keep you up all night. It's the sort of novel you say you'll read for only ten more minutes because it's already way past your bedtime. Two hours later, your light is still on New York Times Book Review Thrillingly subversive New York Times Grant captures a dizzying sense of a world being remade simultaneously by bankers and Bach -- Kate Saunders The Times Deliciously dark, transgressive and surprising ... LaClos (Dangerous Liaisons) would have dived under the covers with delight and swallowed it in one sitting -- Emily Maitlis Evening Standard
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