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He was the handsomest, most popular, and most accomplished of the five handsome, popular, and accomplished sons of the seventh Earl of Wyden. Another month and they were married.įrom the very beginning they were considered an unlikely pair. Within weeks of meeting him again, she proposed. She’d known him all her life but never gave him a thought before he arrived in London in the spring of 1893. But as with any substantial lie, there was an important omission: in this case, a man. And her maid had indeed been quite shocked. My poor maid, she was quite shocked.”īryony Asquith had indeed been in her late twenties when it happened. “It was the result of not sleeping for days on end. She always smiled and briefly recounted a period of criminal overwork in her twenties. The more inquisitive reporters often demanded to know how the white streak came about. I n the course of her long and illustrious career, Bryony Asquith was the subject of numerous newspaper and magazine articles, almost all of which described her appearance as distinguished and unique, and unfailingly commented upon the dramatic streak of white in her midnight dark hair. My mother, for all the good food she cooked for me when I spent this past Christmas on my own, madly scribbling away.Īnd as always, if you are reading this, thank you. My wonderful husband, for capably shouldering the preponderance of household responsibilities when I’m buried under a deadline. Meredith Duran, whose superb globe scene in her debut book, The Duke of Shadows, inspired me to write my own globe scene-only without any globes, of course. Janine, for kind words, good advice, and pure friendship. Google Books, the best research tool I’ve ever had.Ĭourtney Milan, for unstintingly sharing her legal expertise.

Rainer Engel, for reassuring me that indeed surgeons still dug out bullets at the end of the nineteenth century. My friend Vikram Jakkamsetti, M.D., Ph.D., for calmly and patiently answering all my questions about malaria.

Kristin Nelson and Sara Megibow of Nelson Literary Agency, who are not just fabulous agents, but all-around fabulous people.

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