The Verneys: Love, War and Madness in Seventeenth-Century England by Adrian Tinniswood
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Overview: Here is Edmund Verney, Charles I’s standard bearer at Edgehill, who died still clutching the King’s standard, and his children: Ralph, whose support of the Parliamentarian cause during the Civil War forced him into exile; Mun, a professional soldier who survived Cromwell’s attack on Drogheda in 1649, only to be stabbed to death two days later; Mall, who fell pregnant out of wedlock, and Bess, who ran off with a clergyman. There was also Henry, who was obsessed with horse-racing; Cary, who gambled away a fortune, and Tom, a devout Christian and a petty crook. The next generation led equally exciting lives. Ralph’s son Jack went to Syria and made a fortune. Cousin Pen stayed at home and slept with her sister’s fiancé. Cousin Dick was hanged at Tyburn. Jack’s brother Edmund married a girl who was rich, beautiful and deeply in love with him and within months of the marriage, she lost her mind. The Verneys is narrative history at its very best – fascinating, surprising, enthralling.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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