Lady Audley's Secret

Despite harsh criticism Lady Audley's Secret swiftly elevated Mary Elizabeth Braddon to the top rank of Victorian sensation literature a distinction she shared only with Wilkie Collins. Lady Audley's Secret is a compelling well planned and unquestionably spectacular novel that explores mid-Victorian concerns about the explosive growth of consumer society by drawing on modern theories of insanity. What enigma surrounds the endearing heroine? In a book that hasn't lost any of its ability to upset and delight Lady Audley's secret is probed by Robert Audley an aristocrat turned detective.