{"product_id":"the-elopement","title":"The Elopement","description":"Tracy Rees's latest novel The Elopement is an elaborately imagined historical novel full of delight and temptation, spanning the luxury and poverty of late Victorian England.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA wealthy heiress . . .\u003cbr\u003e1897. Rowena Blythe is wealthy, entitled and beautiful. As her twenty-fourth birthday approaches, she’s expected to marry – and to marry well.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn unsuitable match . . .\u003cbr\u003eHer parents commission a portrait of Rowena to help cement her reputation as a great society beauty. However, Bartek, the artist’s young assistant, is unlike any man Rowena has met before – wild, romantic and Bohemian. While society at large awaits the announcement of Rowena’s engagement, it is Bartek who captures Rowena’s heart along with her likeness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA scandal in society . . .\u003cbr\u003eRowena knows her parents would never approve of Bartek, who in their eyes is nothing but a penniless foreigner. As her feelings grow, she has no-one to turn to. Dare she risk everything for love?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for Tracy Rees:\u003cbr\u003e‘a natural storyteller . . .’ – Rachel Hore\u003cbr\u003e‘Tracy has a rare gift for creating characters you are rooting for from the first page’ – Gill Paul\u003cbr\u003e‘has such a talent for writing engaging characters who stay with you’ – Hazel Gaynor\u003cbr\u003e‘Tracy Rees is at the height of her game’ – Rebecca Griffiths","brand":"Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47855976710370,"sku":"MTO-MACMILLAN-2026-06-3-8.55-346","price":37.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/9898\/5881\/files\/book_345_hPaSIx2H0.jpg?v=1780489154","url":"https:\/\/layitflat.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-elopement","provider":"Lay it Flat Publishing Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}