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ONE FALSE STEP

Clive Woolliscroft

ISBN 978-1-916668-92-8

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Publication: 27 JUNE 2024
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ISBN: 9781916668928
Price: £9.99
Binding: Paperback

Format: 216 x 138 mm
Extent: 336 pp
Illustrated: FV Historical Fiction
Thema:

Author location: Stoke on Trent
Comparative title: 9781915603678 Less Dreadful With
Every Step

• The second novel by Clive Woolliscroft, the
author of Less Dreadful With Every Step.
• Set in 1744. We follow William Dunbar, the
younger son of a Scottish nobleman, in his
pursuit of wealth, and marriage seems to be
his simplest way to achieve it.
• One False Step is a reimagined story of Mary
Blandy, ‘the fair parricide’ who was hanged for
Before retiring, Clive Woolliscroft served as an Army Officer in poisoning her father on the 6th of April 1752.
Germany, worked as an International Money Market Trader in
London, was a Management Consultant in Prague and Riga and William Dunbar, the younger son of a Scottish nobleman,
practised as a Solicitor in London, Hertfordshire and Staffordshire. craves wealth, and marriage seems to be his simplest
Now more than halfway through his eighth decade, he lives in way to achieve it.
Cheshire with his wife, Sue, and cocker spaniel, Bonnie. One False
Step is his second novel. His pursuit eventually leads him to Mercy Grundy, an old
maid in the eyes of mid-1740s society who fears lifelong
spinsterhood. Her father has offered a substantial dowry to
the man who will take her hand in marriage.

For William, marriage to Mercy would be a match made in
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