Vanda Cain

Life After Nelson Vanda Cain

It is January 1806 and Admiral Lord Nelson has been dead for three months. Emma, Lady Hamilton, is forty, newly bereaved and for the first time since her teens, without a man in her life. Her late husband, Sir William Hamilton, and her lover Nelson have left her enough money to live on ... just, but with an expensive lifestyle and her family to maintain, she careers headlong into debt, scandal and blackmail. Fleeing from house to house, from rented rooms to debtors' prison and eventually to France in a bid to escape her creditors, this friend of the Prince Regent, toast of Society, London's first Supermodel - and reputedly the most beautiful woman in Europe - hurtles towards disaster. Emma sells her treasures, her jewellery and her paintings ... but can she hold on to her secrets?