Rogue Herries

Rogue Herries

<p> Cumberland, 1730. Francis Herries abandons the comforts of Doncaster and drags his family into the wild, rain-soaked valley of Borrowdale — a crumbling ancestral home, a forbidding landscape, and a life lived entirely on his own terms. Violent and ungovernable, tender and self-destructive by turns, Francis is a man who cannot be tamed by society, marriage, or fatherhood. His neighbours call him "Rogue," and the name sticks for forty years. </p> <p> Two forces consume him: the untamed beauty of the Cumberland fells, which mirrors his own turbulent soul, and his relentless, unrequited obsession with Mirabell Starr — a flame-haired gypsy girl decades his junior who does not love him back. Around him, the Jacobite rebellion smoulders at the borders, his long-suffering wife endures in silence, and his son David quietly becomes everything his father never could be. </p> <p> Set across four turbulent decades of Hanoverian England, Rogue Herries is a portrait of a man at war with himself and the world — raw, sweeping, and impossible to forget. If you have ever been drawn to stories of wild places, flawed men, and love that refuses to be reasonable, this is the novel you need to read next. </p>