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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...
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...
Katie Lumsden read Jane Eyre at the age of thirteen and never
looked back. She spent her teenage years devouring nineteenth
century literature, reading every Dickens, Bronte, Gaskell, Austen
and Hardy novel she could find. She has a degree in English
literature and history from the University of Durham and an MA in
creative writing from Bath Spa University. Her short stories have
been shortlisted for the London Short Story Prize and the Bridport
Prize, and have been published in various literary magazines.
Katie's YouTube channel, Books and Things, has more than 28,000
subscribers. She lives in London and works as an editor.
Katie's debut novel, The Secrets of Hartwood Hall, was shortlisted
for the HWA Debut Crown Award.
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