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The Love-Story of Aliette Brunton
Hardcover
Series: Historic Romances Book, Book 3
ISBN13: 9781515443421
Publisher: Wilder Publications
Published: Dec 27 2019
Pages: 460
Weight: 1.86
Height: 1.19 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Love-Story of Aliette Brunton is a psychological romance by Gilbert Parker set against the social and political undercurrents of Edwardian England.
In this later novel, Parker turns from the imperial settings that first secured his reputation and offers instead a more intimate study of character and motive. Aliette Brunton stands at the centre of a drama shaped by personal conviction, social expectation, and emotional restraint. The narrative traces the quiet pressures exerted by family, society, and political ambition, examining how private feeling negotiates public duty.
Measured in tone yet attentive to moral conflict, the novel reflects the Edwardian concern with honour, reputation, and the cost of choice. Parker's prose is composed and deliberate, favouring psychological insight over melodrama. The result is a work of restrained intensity, concerned less with spectacle than with the inner consequences of love, loyalty, and misjudgment.
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