MERIDON - Harper Collins

Meridon, the desolate Romany girl, is determined to escape the hard poverty of her childhood: Riding bareback in a travelling show, while her sister Dandy risks her life on the trapeze, Meridon dedicates herself to freeing them both from danger and want.But Dandy - beautiful, impatient, thieving Dandy - grabs too much, too quickly. And Merdion finds herself alone, riding in bitter grief through the rich Sussex farmlands towards a house called Wideacre - which awaits the return of the last of the Laceys.Sweeping, passionate, unique: Meridon completes Philippa Gregory's bestselling trilogy which began with Wideacre and continued in The Favoured Child