A Wild & True Relation opens during the Great Storm of 1703, as smuggler Tom West confronts his lover Grace with her betrayal of him to the Revenue.
Leaving Grace’s cottage in flames, he takes her orphaned daughter Molly aboard ship to join his crew. But Molly, or Orlando as she must now call herself, will grow up to outshine all the men of Tom’s company and seek her own revenge. Woven into Molly’s story are the writers – Celia Fiennes, Hester Thrale, George Eliot – who are transfixed by her myth and who, over three centuries, come together to solve the mystery of her life.
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