Adam's Rib // Legacy of Pride — Paula Allardyce

Original title: Adam's Rib.

From the glitter of Georgian London to the drawing room of Victoria's day - a family's pride and passion unmasked. Three women in three centuries, all with the same problem: how to keep the love of a straying husband.

Three beautiful and spirited women, there passionate lovers -- here is a novel that spans two centuries of rich and turbulent English life from the fashionable aristocratic salons of the Georgian era, through the pomp and power of Victoria's reign, to the challenging winds of change of today. It is an unforgettable chronicle of love and marriage, honor and infidelity, striving and conflict and fulfillment. Above all, it is the splendid story of three women of one family, each of whom had to learn her own lesson of what is means to be a woman. Here is a spellbinding triumph of storytelling of the author of Eliza and Gentleman Rogue -- and enthralling tale of the lives and loves of three magnificent heroines.