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Born in a mock-gothic castle to a charismatic charlatan and a beautiful heiress, Justina’s idyllic Victorian childhood was only distantly shadowed by the Boer War. But her golden youth spent on the coast of Scotland and in the great houses of Ireland, was soon to be shattered by the urgent realities of the Twentieth Century. Justina and her generation dreamt of love, of fame, of fulfilment: but violence loomed — first in France, in 1914, then in Dublin in 19 19. An artist, a feminist, a woman of passion and pride, Justina Bride Melrose’s story mirrors the story of modern European history… Alison Scott Skelton brilliantly portrays an indomitable woman’s search for truth, honour and greatness as the guns boom — and innocence fails.