What's on the shelf? Through a Glass Darkly.

I picked up this little gem of a book because Amazon.ca recommended that I read it. Gotta love Amazon!

Through a Glass Darkly - Karleen Koen

Through a Glass Darkly is a historical fiction novel that follows the life of Barbara Alderley. We meet Barbara, or "Bab" as she's often called as a young girl of 15 living with her grandmother at Tamworth, the family home. Her father Kit, has run away in disgrace after the fall of the Stuart cause. Her mother Diana, is disinterested in the lives of her six children and is out in society petitioning for a divorce using any means neccessary to persuade the men of the upper classes to support her petition.

Diana has a bargaining chip in Barbara. With Barbara comes a package of land as a dowry. She decides that she is going to try and get the count, Roger Devane to marry Barbara. After a lot of drama and finagling, Barbara does marry Roger, and comes to learn a deep, dark secret that he has been harbouring for a long time.

This book is long, and it took a while for me to get into it, but once I did I was pretty glad that I read it. There are two other books in the series, a prequel and a sequel, which I am planning on reading in the near future.