The Lavender Ballad

By Lewi Hudson-James

It is the spring of 1855, and Lady Evelyn Dovestone rides with her family in their carriage to the market town of Carverleigh, Oxfordshire. They are to settle in its affluent Estate Quarter and find new friends and a new life, avoiding the dark secret from which they have fled, which threatens to stalk them like a storm cloud...Across town, Lord Ansthruther Starkley-Forbes, heir to his aristocratic family's ancestral country seat of Knightsgarth, will shortly begin a chain of events which cannot be rewound, taking himself, Evelyn and their friends & family through decadent houses, balls, soirees and dinner parties on a journey where they both find love, loss, secrets and ultimately, discovery. The Lavender Ballad is historical fiction redefining the genre, penned in the style of an epic poem, it speaks to you of tales from both the heart and the head.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1797477692
• ISBN13: 9781797477695
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 2.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"