Troy Chimneys

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A Victorian gentleman is forced by illness to entertain himself with the family archive, and he uncovers the Regency-era correspondence and diaries of one Miles Lufton, MP – apparently a black sheep of the family, connected with a scandal long buried. But through the pieced-together artefacts from the past, a fuller picture emerges of a man torn between two personalities – Miles, serious, studious and penniless, and ‘Pronto’, flirt, political mover and eternal ‘extra man’. Miles longs to dispose of his disreputable alter ego, but that way lies calamity…

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