The Passionate Elopement

Compton Mackenzie's elegant first novel, a witty and stylish period romance set in an eighteenth-century spa town.

At a glance A polished comedy of manners, intrigue, and love among the powdered wits of a bygone age. In a fashionable spa town of the eighteenth century, where reputations are made and… Compton Mackenzie's debut novel savours every detail of that mannered world. What it's about The Passionate Elopement unfolds in an elegant Georgian watering-place…

The Passionate Elopement unfolds in an elegant Georgian watering-place, among its beaux and belles, its gossip and its intrigues.