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The Bailiff's Wife

The Bailiff's Wife Historical Fiction

The Bailiff's Wife

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When Sarah Kidd arrives in Chalfont St James, the townspeople made it clear that they would rather let a crime go unpunished than listen to an outsider. But Sarah is sure that it is her husband whose body was discovered near the inn and buried in a pauper's grave, the fortune he earned as a bailiff missing. And she has an opinion about who is to blame. Quaker Frances Bright and the new parish priest Arthur Brunskill, both also outsiders of a sort, take up her cause, each in their own way. Yet it takes the actions of an adolescent girl, Frances' daughter, Jane, to ensure that justice, of a kind, is done. *A 17th-century broadsheet about a murder in a village north of London sparked this tale of a woman's search for justice. Against the background of Restoration England, we find ourselves in a world not unlike our own, full of passions and prejudices, but built without apology on rank and deference.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
286
Release Date:
2025-10-21
Publication Date:
2025-10-21
Publisher:
Cuidono Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1944453288
ISBN13:
9781944453282
Weight:
363 g
Height:
133 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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