Henry Smeaton: A Jacobite Story of the Reign of George the First.
1850
Henry Smeaton: A Jacobite Story of the Reign of George the First.
1850
It is 1715, and England holds its breath. The Stuarts have fallen. The Hanoverians sit uneasily on the throne. And in the coffee houses and corridors of London, men whisper of loyalty, betrayal, and the high cost of choosing the wrong side. Henry Smeaton is a young man caught in the undertow of history. Drawn into the dangerous world of Jacobite intrigue, he must navigate a landscape where every conversation carries weight and every alliance risks death. As the shadows of the old regime clash with the new order, Smeaton finds his loyalties tested not only by the great powers around him but by the secret currents of his own heart. G. P. R. James, the Victorian master of historical fiction, weaves a tale of political peril and personal crisis against one of England's most volatile moments. For readers who savor the intricate politics of "Wolf Hall" or the doomed romance of "Tristam Shandy"'s era, this is a novel about what it means to live between two worlds, belonging fully to neither.
