Fair Exchange: A Novel

In the early 1800s in a small village in rural France a peasant woman named Louise summons her priest. Fearing she is about to die Louise begins her final confession to the bored cleric and reveals a lifelong secret involving a famous woman writer a young English poet and a wicked and unusual crime. Inspired by the lives and loves of the eighteenth-century pioneer of womens rights Mary Wollstonecraft and her contemporary William Wordsworth Fair Exchange is a spellbinding and sensual novel of passion and guilt.