Maid of Buttermere

Melvyn Bragg's highly acclaimed, bestselling historical novel, the story behind one of the 19th century's greatest scandals.'This is the story of an impostor and bigamist, a self-styled Colonel Hope, who travels to the North, where eventually he marries "e;The Maid of Buttermere"e;, a young woman whose natural beauty inspired the dreams and confirmed the theories of various early nineteenth-centur...