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Caroline Harvey is the pseudonym of Joanna Trollope, the highly acclaimed author of bestselling contemporary novels. The Choir, A Village Affair, A Passionate Man, The Rector’s Wife, The Men and the Girls, A Spanish Lover, The Best of Friends, Next of Kin, Other People’s Children, Marrying the Mistress, Girl from the South and Second Honeymoon are all published by Black Swan. She has also written a study of women in the British Empire, Britannia’s Daughters. As Caroline Harvey she has written several historical novels including Legacy of Love, A Second Legacy, The Steps of the Sun, Leaves from the Valley, The Brass Dolphin, City of Gems and The Taverners’ Place, which are all published by Corgi Books.

Joanna Trollope was born in Gloucestershire, where she still lives. She was appointed OBE in the 1996 Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to literature.

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Henry Harding, parson to the excellent living of Stoke Abbas, was a handsome and prepossessing man.  Unfortunately fate had seen fit to bless him with a family of extremely plain and unprepossessing children.  Caroline was the least offensively plain according to Lady Lennox, but the entire Lennox family also admitted that Caroline was the most insignificant person in the county of Dorset.<br><br>Caroline, already twenty-six, was bullied by her elder sister, was nervous in company, and had no prospects at all.  She had one golden memory, of an admirer when she was eighteen, but John Gates, nephew to the Lennox family, had gone to India and forgotten her.  Or so she thought.<br><br>When Lady Lennox summoned her and said that Johnny Gates had sent a proposal of marriage, Caroline at first declined.  She suspected that somehow Lady Lennox--for reasons of her own--had contrived and pressured her erswhile suitor into proposing.  But w