Our Lady of the Snows

<p><b>'An epic voyage well worth taking</b>' <i>Telegraph</i><br><br>'<b>There is nothing quite like a James Buchan novel</b>' <i>Financial Times</i><br><br>France, 1754. William and Jeanne Neilson, together at last, are living in the deep country and are happier than either ever expected to be. Their children, the foundling Marie-Ange and young William, are growing up. Jeanne devotes her mornings to scientific research while William has exchanged soldiering for agricultural improvement.<br><br>Yet both are restless. Jeanne, herself married to a poor Scotsman outlawed in Great Britain, is determined her adoptive daughter shall have a throne. Marie-Ange's grace and rich dowry have caught the eyes of princes all over Europe. But Marie-Ange's heart is firmly elsewhere.<br><br>William, still haunted by the loss of his men at the battle of Culloden in 1746, dreams of one last fight to purge his shame.<br><br>Then war breaks out again with England, and the family is torn apart and scattered into the unknown.<br><br><u>Praise for <b>A CHALICE ARGENT</b>, the second William Neilson novel:</u><br><br>'Delightful ... William Neilson continues to exhibit basically all of the virtues. He's brave, stoical, generous, truthful, constant, protective towards the weak and honourable to a fault. Yet entirely likeable. The nearest series to this I can think of is Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin cycle' Francis Spufford, winner of the Costa First novel award<br><br><u>What readers say about <b>A STREET SHAKEN BY LIGHT</b>, the first William Neilson novel:</u><br><br>'A tight and <b>bright romp of a read</b>' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐<br><br>'His <b>rollicking romp</b> ranges widely across the world, taking in <b>the French Revolution, the Jacobite rebellion, love affairs, duels, general skullduggery</b> and much else besides, in prose as elegant as it is witty' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐</p>