# The Emperor

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- Book: [The Emperor](https://www.bookquiver.com/cynthia-harrod-eagles/the-emperor) ([The Emperor.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/cynthia-harrod-eagles/the-emperor.md))
- Authors: [Cynthia Harrod-Eagles](https://www.bookquiver.com/cynthia-harrod-eagles)
- Publisher: Sphere
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-07-4813-298-0
- Published: 2011-08-25
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

1795: the shadow of Bonaparte has fallen across Europe and touches each member of the far-flung Morland family. As the century draws to a close, Jemima Morland wearily ackowledges that her life is also nearing its end, but she has scant peace as her unpredictable children behave ever more incomprehensibly: James's marriage to Mary Ann is closer to falling apart; Lucy's marriage de convenance is in the balance - her affair with Lieutenant Watson is an open scandal. Mary bears a daughter on board her husband's ship during the battle of the Nile; and William supports a mistress whose marriage cannot be dissolved. Jemima's death appears to unite the family but, as ever with the Morlands, the future holds more peril than hope.