Background Info
Some more information about the times, places and people featured in my novels
Lady Anna
The Boulevard des Anglaise in Nice. Popular with wealthy British tourists throughout the Victorian era, many of whom were sick or convalescing in the warm climate
Anna grows up in St Johns Wood with her mother, the estranged wife of a drunken and dissolute earl. At age 16, she is married to a much older man as part of a gambling debt and she is under pressure to produce a male heir for him.
Her husband, Lord Albury becomes impotent after suffering a stroke and Anna embarks on a series affairs, but they have to flee to Nice on the Côte d'Azure after Lord Teesdale, one of Anna's lovers tries to persuade her to leave Lord Albury.
Anna meets Louis Vernier, a young Anglo-French secretary, and they start an affair. Finding herself pregnant, all three return to England where Anna gives birth to the long awaited heir.
Lord Albury becomes jealous of Anna and Louis's relationship and sends Louis away. He then suffers another stroke and dies.
Anna and her son go to stay in Albury Hall in Wiltshire and she meets, Richard Greenwood a young farmer and they start an affair.
Anna returns to London and meets, Jack Teesdale, her old flame and she discovers that she is pregnant with his child.
Anna must now decide between Jack, Richard, or Louis.
Avenue Road, St Johns Wood depicted in the 1890's. Known as an area where rich men kept their mistresses. It's tree-lined and discreet roads held a multitude sins
Eaton Square, Belgravia depicted in the late 19th Century. Anna and Lord Albury live here after their marriage.