Robert Orange: Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange

In Victorian England's glittering social maze, Lady Sara De Treverell stands at a crossroads that will determine her entire future. The Duke of Marshire offers wealth, status, and safety. Robert Orange offers something far more dangerous: the possibility of being truly seen. As Sara weighs an advantageous marriage against her deepening feelings for this remarkable man her father despises, she discovers that choosing one's heart in a world built on利益的计算 is perhaps the most radical act of all. John Oliver Hobbes (the pen name of Pearl Mary-Teresa Craigie) weaves a sharp, psychologically acute portrait of a society where love and ambition exist in perpetual tension, where a woman's worth is measured in marriages rather than dreams, and where the person who truly sees you is always, somehow, the one you cannot have. The novel crackles with the particular anguish of wanting what society refuses to name as legitimate.