<p><b>Tracy Rees's <i>The Elopement</i> is an elaborately imagined historical romance, full of delight and temptation, spanning the luxury and poverty of late Victorian England.<br><br>'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' - Hazel Prior, author of <i>Away with the Penguins</i></b><br><br><b>A wealthy heiress . . .</b><br>1897. Rowena Blythe is wealthy, entitled and beautiful. As her twenty-fourth birthday approaches, she’s expected to marry – and to marry well.<br><br><b>An unsuitable match . . .</b><br>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 a
