A Simple Mistake

Believing himself spurned by the woman he loves, Thomas Davenport leaves Dorset with no particular destination and no particular plan — only the need to be somewhere else. He ends up in Ireland in 1689, at the height of the Jacobite invasion, where he falls in with Tristan Browne, an Irishman born in Barbados who is coming home to a country in uproar.

What follows is one of the most punishing episodes of the century: countryman against countryman in a war of attrition, starvation and sheer endurance behind the walls of Londonderry. Bridget Browne is caught inside it, and the account she writes is startling.

Unknown to Thomas, his brother Matthew is in Ireland too, wanting nothing more than to be back in a Dorset pulpit but unable to walk away from his duty. Thrown together by accident, the four must flee when Matthew uncovers a corrupt scheme run by the old adversary Parchman — who is, at that moment, quietly dismantling everything they own back home.

What you're getting into

• The Siege of Londonderry from inside the walls
• A heroine who writes her own history and is nobody's ornament
• The series' great villain moving from nuisance to genuine threat
• Bagber Manor and Great Little in real peril for the first time

Book details

• Series: The Dorset Chronicles, Book Three
• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 978-1-916071-93-3
• Publisher: Newmore Publishing

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