Portrait of a Girl

by Mary Williams

The year is 1866.

Josephine Lebrun, still only 16, is forced to earn her living by singing at the Golden Bird inn in Cornwall.

With her lovely voice, she captures the attention of Rupert Verne, the rich and powerful owner of the Kerrysmoor estate.

Rupert takes Josephine under his patronage, and brings her to live in the remote cottage of Tregonnis from where she travels to Truro to attend lessons with the great former opera singer Signor Luigi.

Her beauty and charm weave their magic on Rupert, bringing them dangerously close together, and under the suspicion of his distant and cold wife, Lady Verne.

Although Josephine is passionately in love with Rupert, life at Kerrysmoor is far from easy - secrets lie every where, and the grand house is cast in an ominous shadow.

As matters come to a head, Josephine is driven away from Rupert and her home.

Will she manage to find her happy ending and marry Rupert?

Or will circumstances drive them apart forever?

‘Potrait of a Girl’ is a spell-binding Gothic romance set in the nineteenth century.

Genres: Historical Romance, Gothic, Historical

185 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1986

About the author

Mary Williams was born in Leicestershire and attended Leicester College of Art where she trained as an illustrator. During a varied and colourful life she wrote and illustrated children’s programmes for BBC Wales and worked as a newspaper columnist. She has had many occult novels published as well as her bestselling Cornish romances which she wrote under the pseudonym Marianne Harvey.

Reviews

[Carolanne · Rating 1 out of 5]

Hated this book


Mary Williams was born in Cornwell, England, U.K.

[Hafiza · Rating 1 out of 5]

First published in the 80's, free on Kindle when I downloaded.
Heroine is 16
Hero is 37 and unhappily married.
Enough said