The Scandal of the Season
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  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407013497
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320

The Scandal of the Season

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A seductive novel about risk and dangerous liaisons in a time of Jacobite plots and Popish fears, when marriage was a market, and sex was a temptation fraught with danger, The Scandal of the Season is a brilliant, witty modern love-story - but set in 1711.


Discover a dazzling story of risk and dangerous liaisons...

Beautiful, clever Arabella Fermor is seduced by charming Robert Petre, seventh baron of Ingatestone. Eager to secure herself a rich and handsome husband, Arabella cannot guess that the enigmatic Robert is entwined in a treasonous plot against Queen Anne.

Watching the pair from the outskirts is a man destined to become the genius of his age - the poet Alexander Pope. In Arabella and Robert's flirtations he has found the tale of temptation, coquetry and danger that might just make his fortune...

**Perfect for fans of Bridgerton**

'Convincing, seductive and utterly absorbing, Sophie Gee's debut will transport its readers' Observer
  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407013497
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320
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About the author

Sophie Gee

Born in Sydney in 1974, Sophie Gee was brought up and educated in the inner-city suburb of Paddington, graduating from the University of Sydney in 1995 with a first-class honours degree in English. She won a scholarship to Harvard, where she wrote a doctoral thesis about pollution, filth and satire in eighteenth-century London. She received a PhD in 2002 and was immediately appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Princeton. Recently she held a research fellowship at UCLA and has recently taught at University College London before returning to Princeton. She is the author of The Scandal of the Season.

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Praise for The Scandal of the Season

Sophie Gee has recreated the real-life scandal that inspired Pope's The Rape Of The Lock to clever, sexy effect, spinning a tale that will appeal to fans of Tracy Chevalier

Daily Mail

A clever and inviting piece of critical biography masquerading as a light comedy of manners

New York Times

Based on a true story, Gee's novel is lively, amusing and highly evocative of a thrilling age. Who would expect less from a Harvard scholar whose doctoral thesis was on pollution, filth and satire in 18th-century London?

Tatler

Charming and witty...a thoroughly enjoyable submersion in early 18th-century London, when the wittiest writers feasted on the folly of aristocrats...The Scandal of the Season offers both charms and merit, an extravagant costume drama infused with the poet's [Pope's] incisive wit and moral insight

Washington Post

Convincing, seductive and utterly absorbing, Sophie Gee's debut will transport its readers

Observer

Everything points to an exceptionally stylish and well-researched first novel

Scotland on Sunday

Gee knows her period inside out, and recreates it with a kind of loving joy...shows us a society in action rather than merely describing it

Guardian

Gee writes with scholarly confidence, underpinning the racy intrigue of her account with a real understanding of the characters and their world

New Yorker

Secret ambition, hidden hurts, put-downs lobbed by the socially insecure; all of these appear... For anyone who enjoyed Shakespeare in Love or Dangerous Liaisons, The Scandal of the Season is a treat; rich and satisfying

Economist

Sophie Gee has brought bawdy, chaotic 18th-century London to life with verve

New Statesman
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