A GRIPPING HISTORICAL NOVEL BASED ON ONE YOUNG HEIRESS’S REAL-LIFE STRUGGLE

London, 1837.

At 23, Angela Burdett inherits her grandfather’s share in Coutts Bank. She is now the richest woman in England. Working alongside her close friend, Charles Dickens, she establishes a home for ‘fallen women’.

Angela will refuse multiple proposals of marriage. She prefers her role of ‘queen of the poor’.

With Dickens as her champion, she is free to explore opportunities not usually open to women of her time. But her high-profile position draws the attention of mentally unstable barrister, Richard Dunn. Through his journal of bloodstained poems and deranged fantasies, the frenzied consciousness of Richard Dunn is revealed.