Publication
Date: September 28, 2017
Accent Press/ Genre: Historical Fiction
eBook & Paperback; 407 Pages
eBook & Paperback; 407 Pages
London
1667.
Set
in a London rising from the ruins of the Great Fire, Pleasing Mr Pepys is a
vivid re-imagining of the events in Samuel Pepys’s Diary.
Desperate
to escape her domineering aunt, Deb Willet thinks the post of companion to
well-respected Elisabeth Pepys is the answer to her prayers. But Samuel Pepys’s
house is not as safe as it seems. An intelligent girl in Deb’s position has
access to his government papers, and soon she becomes a target of flamboyant
actress Abigail Williams, a spy for England’s enemies, the Dutch.
Abigail
is getting old and needs a younger accomplice. She blackmails Deb into stealing
Pepys’s documents. Soon, the respectable life Deb longs for slides out of her
grasp. Mr Pepys’s obsessive lust for his new maid increases precisely as
Abigail and her sinister Dutch spymaster become more demanding. When Deb falls
for handsome Jem Wells, a curate-in-training, she thinks things cannot possibly
get worse.
Until
– not content with a few stolen papers – the Dutch want Mr Pepys’s Diary.
Deborah Swift is the
author of three previous historical novels for adults, The Lady’s
Slipper, The Gilded Lily, and A Divided Inheritance, all published by
Macmillan/St Martin’s Press, as well as the Highway
Trilogy for teens (and anyone young at heart!). Her first novel was
shortlisted for the Impress prize for new novelists.
She lives on the edge
of the beautiful and literary English Lake District – a place made
famous by the poets Wordsworth and Coleridge.
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