Alice in Exile

Alice in Exile is Piers Paul Read’s triumphant return to the fiction for which he is widely romantic, dramatic, and rich with detail. It features Alice Fry–an independent woman in a world ruled by men–and the two men who love her. It is 1913 when Alice meets Edward Cobb, the eligible son of a baronet. When Alice’s father, a radical publisher, gets involved in a scandal, Edward breaks off their engagement, unaware that Alice is expecting his child. Desperate, she travels to Russia to serve as a governess for charming Baron Rettenberg, as the Russian Revolution and World War I rage on.