The Elopement (Tracy Rees)

The Elopement brings us back to the society, period and characters of the previous book by Tracy Rees The Rose Garden.
It is set in England, in 1897. The rich heiress Rowena Blythe falls in love with someone regarded unsuitable and decides to elope. Her life changes forever from that point. She gets back on her own two feet thanks to one of the family maid, Pansy, and to Olivia Westallen. All three women are unusual for their time and they make life choices that are very different to most women then. The different storylines in the book illustrate how rigid the social code was in that period and how brutal the consequences could be for those who did not conform. Again, Tracy Rees gives a voice to women who did not have one in that period of history. The book is superbly written, with interesting characters, a great story and many details of historical background.
I enjoyed the book very much and I cannot wait for Tracy Rees’s next novel.