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Match made in hell

Banished to St Kilda by her philandering husband, Lady Grange is the subject of a spirited and remarkable tale.

Rarely can a heroine have been introduced in more tasty terms to her readers than the intriguing description which Margaret Macaulay bestows on Rachel Chiesley, the wife of James Erskine, Lord Grange, a scion of the influential Mar family.