Philippa Gregory-s first novel and first in the bestselling Wideacre trilogy. A compelling tale of passion and intrigue set in the eighteenth century. From the author of The Other Boleyn Girl and The Virgin-s Lover.-If it was the way of the world that girls left home, then the world would have to change. I would never change.-Wideacre Hall, set in the heart of the English countryside, is the ancestral home that Beatrice Lacey loves. But as a woman of the eighteenth century she has no right of inheritance. Corrupted by a world that mistreats women, she sets out to corrupt others. Sexual and wilful, she believes that the only way to achieve control over Wideacre is through a series of horrible crimes, and no-one escapes the consequences of her need to possess the land.Sweeping, passionate, unique: ''Wideacre'' is the novel which brought Philippa Gregory to bestselling fame and is the first of the trilogy which continued with ''The Favoured Child'' and concluded with -Meridon-.
