Lady Audley's Secret Condition:Good I turned the last page

I turned the last page with the unusual conviction of having been in the company of a fine writer who is - who must surely be - a good man' Telegraph 'Poetry

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he finds himself driven towards an act of self-sacrifice as the only way to escape an impossible situation and the question that haunts him - how to be a traitor without being a traitor

Lady Audley's Secret Condition:Good I turned the last pageThis Victorian bestseller, along with Braddon's other famous novel, Aurora Floyd, established her as the main rival of the master of the sensational novel, Wilkie Collins. A protest against the passive, insipid 19th century heroine, Lady Audley was described by one critic of the time as"high strung, full of passion, purpose, and movement." Her crime (the secret of the title) is shown to threaten the apparently respectable middle class world of