judith flanders enjoys a dickensian tale of victorian goings on

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: February 5, 2006| Author: JUDITH FLANDERS | Copyright information

Kept: A Victorian Mystery

BY D. J. TAYLOR

CHATTO & WINDUS, pounds 16.99, 432 pp T pounds 14.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115

It is the summer of 1863. Henry Ireland has fallen off his horse, hitting his head on a rock and dying alone, by the side of the road. But his death is problematic: he was an expert horseman; the horse that 'ran away' with him is found peacefully cropping the grass beside him; and there are no rocks. But he is indubitably dead.

Then his w...

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