FAREWELL TO/ WHITE COCKADE (JACOBITE NOVELS) (KLIO PRESS) PB

Jane Lane (1905 - 1978) was the pen name of Elaine Kidner Dakers, and is best known for her historical novels set in the 17th and 18th century. From the court of Louis XV in Versailles to the dockyards of Antwerp, Charles Edward Stuart narrowly avoids spies and assassins at every turn. Betrayed by his wife and brother, his dreams of restoring the Stuart line slowly fade and the Prince is sustained only by his own gritty courage, faith and an illegitimate daughter, Charlotte, whose life is dogged by a more perilous fate than her father could ever have imagined. 'I read Jane Lane's books with mounting admiration for both their content and style […] Merging fact and fiction into essential truth, she has produced novels of quite extraordinary emotional power and exciting narrative pace’ - John Prebble.