“Historical fiction at its best”
“A truly engaging period romance written by an extremely thoughtful writer.”
“Cyril Lucas writes with great intelligence, knowledge, wit and sensitivity.”
“If you liked Poldark, you will love this!”
Set in 1799 in a castle on the windswept Dorset Coast, “A Windy Night” tells the story of Lady Lucy Greatjoy, newly married and expecting to embark upon a life of wedded bliss. Life however has other plans! Her marriage is in trouble before it has even started. The castle is crumbling to the ground. A winter storm wreaks havoc overnight destroying the town’s fishing boats and leaving the community destitute. Soldiers arrive to investigate a smuggling operation, followed by a Press Gang out to seize unwilling conscripts for Naval Service. But then who ever said life or love was meant to be easy?
Much more than a conventional romance, “A Windy Night” transports the reader back in time to learn about life in Regency England. In 1799 British society was emerging into a new era. Advances in medical science, public education and social justice were in progress and the intriguing historical information woven into the tale – from smuggling, to medicine, to military history and even the recipe for gunpowder – is all true.
The story’s young heroine Lady Lucy is a forerunner of the modern woman, quickly proving herself capable of meeting the obligations of social privilege which settle upon her shoulders when she falls in love and marries an aristocratic husband. As Lady Lucy overcomes one challenge after another, she transforms not only her own life, but the lives of all those around her. Proving that then, as now, one person can make a world of difference.
*****
I hope you will give “A Windy Night” a chance and that you will enjoy it as much as other readers! Thanks ever so, Cyril!