The Blessing Col Buchanan Five years after Charles II's

Five years after Charles II's triumphant return to London there is growing mistrust of his extravagant court and of corruption among his officials - and when a cart laden with gunpowder explodes outside the General Letter Office

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The Blessing Col Buchanan Five years after Charles II'sWhen Grace Allingham, a nave young English woman, goes to live in France with her dashingly aristocratic husband Charles Edouard, she finds herself overwhelmed by the bewilderingly foreign cuisine and the shockingly decadent manners and mores of the French. But it is the discovery of her husband's French notion of marriage which includes a permanent mistress and a string of casual affairs that sends Grace packing back to London with their "blessing,"