Caterina

'So convincing in its sense of time and place' - NEW STATESMAN 'Entertaining from start to finish' - BEST 'Intensely exciting' - PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY Ignoring the whiff of scandal that has always clung about her, Caterina Fonsa has lived quietly in early nineteenth-century Oporto, brought up her fatherless son, worked at her painting, and almost forgotten her lost lover. In 1832, festering civil war erupts into violence. Liberal Dom Pedro lands near Oporto to claim the throne for his daughter, and the Portonians who welcome him find themselves under siege from his usurping brother, Dom Miguel. Caterina starts on a dangerous new career. She is soon being wooed again, while her son Lewis risks his life in Dom Pedro's service...