Twenty years ago, Malcolm Whiteley discovers his attractive wife Lysette is having an affair.
The Whiteleys are
When fifteen-year-old Cissie Brodie loses her parents to cholera, she is forced out of the family cottage & left to raise her
... Judaea in AD 46. Roman centurions Cato & Macro have been posted to Judaea for a 'hearts & minds' operation.
The Empire
At his funeral the bells of the church were rung open rather than half-muffled, as is usual for the dead. Kate Lockhart has come along with corporate leaders, ministers & intelligence chiefs to a beautiful town in the Welsh Marches to mourn her soul mate, David Eyam, the brightest government servant of his generation. All that remains of Eyam are the burnt fragments of a man killed far from home in a horrific explosion. Eyam has left a devastating legacy which certain people at the funeral are desperate to suppress
- but Kate Lockhart is equal to Eyam's legacy. She becomes the focus of the state's paranoiac power & leads the local resistance to it, directed from beyond the grave by Eyam. & the state is no match for the genius of the dead...