Synopsis
Alice in Exile is Piers Paul Read's triumphant return to the fiction for which he is widely praised: romantic, dramatic, and rich with detail. It features Alice Fry--an independent woman in a world ruled by men--and the two men who love her. It is 1913 when Alice meets Edward Cobb, the eligible son of a baronet. When Alice's father, a radical publisher, gets involved in a scandal, Edward breaks off their engagement, unaware that Alice is expecting his child. Desperate, she travels to Russia to serve as a governess for charming Baron Rettenberg, as the Russian Revolution and World War I rage on.
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About Piers Paul Read
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Piers Paul Read
Born 1941
Piers Paul Read (born 7 March 1941) is a British novelist, historian and biographer. He was first noted in 1974 for a book of reportage, *Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors*, later adapted as a feature film and a documentary. **Source**: [Piers Paul Read](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Paul_Read) on Wikipedia.
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