Albion's Story

In this 'startling, fasciniating, disturbing' (Library Journal) companion to Lilian's Story, Kate Grenville takes on a daunting challenge: to imagine, from the inside out, how an apparently respectable Victorian gentleman can persuade himself that he has a right, perhaps even a 'manly' duty to rape any woman under his control: his shopgirls, his servants, his wife, even his daughter.