After converting to the royalist cause, marrying royalist Michel Vernet, and proving courageous on the battlefields of the French Revolution, Hester Broadhurst, a young Englishwoman, develops an all-consuming passion for the Prince de Talmond
Brian Brendon Talbot Cleeve, was a prolific writer and popular TV broadcaster. Son of an Irish father and English mother, he was born and raised in England. In his early thirties he moved to Ireland where he lived for the remainder of his life. In late middle age he underwent a profound spiritual experience, which led him to embrace mysticism. He developed a model for the spiritual life based on the principle of obedience to the Will of God. -Wikipedia