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The trouble with Mrs Montgomery Hurst

ISBN: 9780241556122
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Michael Joseph (UBD)
Origin: GB
Release Date: October, 2024

Book Details

A love letter to Jane Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell, The Trouble with Mrs Montgomery Hurst is a witty novel of manners and gossip, class and family, scandal and romance. 1841. Mr Montgomery Hurst is getting married. To the great consternation of Wickenshire, he is not marrying the daughter of an earl, but an impoverished widow with three children, whom nobody has ever heard of. Society is both appalled and intrigued. Nobody is more curious than Mr Ashpoint, a wealthy local brewer, who had thought Mr Hurst might choose his daughter, Amelia, as his bride. Only, Amelia has no interest in marrying Mr Hurst – or indeed marrying at all. Mr Hurst’s marriage kicks off a series of events, as it becomes clear his business is everyone’s but his own…