Taking Liberties

The author of the "exhilirating" (The Daily Telegraph) debut, A Catch of Consequence, Diana Norman spins a vivid new tale of two women in the early days of the American Revolution... Makepeace Hedley is frantic when she learns that her young daughter, sailing home to England from the rebelling American colonies, has been taken prisoner by the British. With her usual determination, Makepeace sets out for Plymouth to rescue her child. Countess Diana Stacpoole, freed by the death of her sadistic husband, is determined not to fade into genteel decline. When she is asked by an American friend to help his son, also a British prisoner, Diana responds quickly and leaves her past behind. In the chaos of wartime Plymouth the two women face social outrage, public scandal, and even arrest. Amidst docks and prisons, government bureaucracy and brothels, they forge an unlikely and unshakable friendship. And in freeing others, they discover their own splendid liberty.Norman, Diana is the author of 'Taking Liberties', published 2004 under ISBN 9780425198155 and ISBN 0425198154.