William Keeling Boeken

When Gaia Champion's souffle fails to rise, it sets off a chain of events that overthrows the settled order in 1830s Bath.

After four years of banishment in Grenada, Belle Nash returns to Bath in 1835, where memories of a recent love lead to confusions that help launch the career of Pablo Fanque, the circus entrepreneur, and to efforts to rescue the slave- concubine of the son of Lord Servitude, the most hated man in England.