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The Elopement

A Powerful, Uplifting Tale of Forbidden Love

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The Elopement

By: Tracy Rees
Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
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'A beautiful book. Powerful and captivating, the story will transport you to another time and place, plunging you headlong into the lives of its characters. Tracy Rees's writing is fluid, vibrant and evocative. Extraordinarily good.' - Hazel Prior

Tracy Rees's latest novel The Elopement is an elaborately imagined historical novel full of delight and temptation, spanning the luxury and poverty of late Victorian England.

A wealthy heiress . . .
1897. Rowena Blythe is wealthy, entitled and beautiful. As her twenty-fourth birthday approaches, she’s expected to marry – and to marry well.

An unsuitable match . . .
Her parents commission a portrait of Rowena to help cement her reputation as a great society beauty. However, Bartek, the artist’s young assistant, is unlike any man Rowena has met before – wild, romantic and Bohemian. While society at large awaits the announcement of Rowena’s engagement, it is Bartek who captures Rowena’s heart along with her likeness.

A scandal in society . . .
Rowena knows her parents would never approve of Bartek, who in their eyes is nothing but a penniless foreigner. As her feelings grow, she has no-one to turn to. Dare she risk everything for love?

Praise for Tracy Rees:
‘a natural storyteller . . .’ – Rachel Hore
‘Tracy has a rare gift for creating characters you are rooting for from the first page’ – Gill Paul
‘has such a talent for writing engaging characters who stay with you’ – Hazel Gaynor
‘Tracy Rees is at the height of her game’ – Rebecca Griffiths

 Historical Historical Fiction Romance Victorian Fiction Heartfelt

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Critic reviews

I absolutely loved The Elopement. I can't praise it enough. The characters are warm and engaging and the story is wise and wonderful. Tracy has woven a rich tapestry of colourful characters so full of heart, against the fascinating and thought-provoking backdrop of late Victorian England. It was an absolute joy. (Rosanna Ley, author of The Forever Garden)
If you’re after a dose of escapist historical romance full of female empowerment, you won’t find anything better than The Elopement.
The Elopement is historical fiction at its best. Through a skilfully crafted plot and wonderful characters, the reader is plunged into a world that feels authentic, fascinating and totally entertaining.
The Elopement is a beautiful novel about taking wrong turnings on the path to love and happiness. The characters step from the pages in all their wilfulness and folly and make us care desperately what happens to them. Tracy Rees is a brilliant, immersive storyteller who truly understands the human heart. I adore all her novels, but this is my favourite so far. (Gill Paul, Author of The Manhattan Girls)
I've long been a huge fan of Tracy's sumptuous, immersive storytelling . . . The Elopement is another absolute beauty. (Jenny Ashcroft, author of Beneath a Burning Sky)
Absolutely loved this book about three kick ass women in Victorian London learning how to be true to themselves. Full of joy and wisdom - it left a big smile on my face. (Caroline Bishop, author of The Lost Chapter)
I've long been a huge fan of Tracy's sumptuous, immersive storytelling, and with The Elopement she's swept me away yet again. She has such a talent for creating the most wonderful characters - within pages, I feel I know them, and that they've become friends - and is a master at spinning gripping, lose-yourself, forget about everything and everyone else, tales. Full of warmth and love, The Elopement is another absolute beauty. (Jenny Ashcroft on The Elopement)
I absolutely loved this story . . . captivating . . . Tracy writes with such skill (Ronali Collings, author of Love & Other Dramas)
Tracy is a very skilled storyteller who weaves the vivid strands of her story together against a rich historical background. ( Jane Johnson)
Tracy Rees writes from the heart (Kathryn Hughes)
In this engrossing novel Tracy Rees takes the reader directly into the drama and action, her writing bringing every scene to sparkling vivid life. The rich use of language meant I was fully immersed in the Victorian world of the main women protagonists and didn’t want to leave. Written with empathy and revealing differing sides to even more minor characters, the roles and attitudes to women at the end of the Victorian period and the emerging ‘women’s movement were riveting. Totally unputdownable. (Dinah Jefferies on The Rose Garden)
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tracey rees draws out characters brilliantly. You know them and love them. One of my favourite of hers. But read The Rose Garden first!

brilliant chatacterisation.

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Awesome story from the very beginning. The descriptions were so well written that I felt I was there, to the scenery, clothes and even the the dark horrific behaviour almost at times made me tear up as it was so heart breaking. Really hated finishing as it’s always a trial finding my next read.
Can’t wait for the next good read by Tracy Rees. 💖

Fabulous

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The wait for a new Tracy Rees novel feels too long, whilst the devouring of it when it does arrive happens all too quickly! One of my favourite authors. I was delighted to realise the admirable and lovely Olive Westallen features heavily in this novel as she did in The Rose Garden. I hope we will hear more from her and the other wonderful pioneering women in the very near future!

Fabulous!

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Story - excellent
Narrator - also excellent.
I have listened to all of Tracy Rees' books, and this one didn't disappoint.
Really interesting characters and a truly heartwarming story. What I didn't realise is that although it can be enjoyed as a stand alone novel, it is actually a sequel to The Rose Garden, which I went back and listened to again before listening to this one.

Another wonderful gem from Tracy Rees.

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I really enjoyed this. it's actually a sequel from one of her other books but Audible have listed it as such. shame. sorry I can't remember which one.

Enjoyable

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